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Re: Language "laws"?

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 9:56
Yes! My lang Omeina has just this system. It has what's called a skewed
phonology. The only labial consonants are m and b. Q occurs, but never
word-initially.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Jones" <jsjonesmiami@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Language "laws"?


> Henrik Theiling hat geschrieben: > > Hi! > > Yann Kiraly <yann_kiraly@...> writes: > > > Is it possible for a conlang to have k,t,d,g,b but no p? > > > And can it lack s,z,f,v,w and have th? > > It is all possible, because you invent it, anyway. :-) The > > question is whether it is realistic, and I'd say strictly no > > to the former and weakly no to the latter.But if you like > > it, why not? > > Hey, wait a minute! 'Yemls has /g/, /k/, /d/, /t/, and /b/, > but no /p/. It's realistic enough for me! I would also like to > point out that ProtoCeltic must have lacked /p/, and the Irish > branch continued to lack /p/ until the middle ages, when Latin > words were borrowed. > > Jeff > > > > > **Henrik > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail