Re: Phonology
| From: | Marcel Bollmann <bollmann@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 25, 2002, 17:07 |
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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:48:04 +0200, you wrote:
>The most important sound you'll have to master if you don't want to
>have "ENGLISH" written all over you language is an alternative to
>the English retroflex "r" (/r\`/ in X-SAMPA). The Spanish-style
>alveolar trill or tap /r/ is the most common, though the French-style
>uvular /R/ would be even more un-English. =)
This leads me to a question I've wanted to ask for a long time now:
The voiced velar fricative, I think it's [G] in X-SAMPA, is represented
by "g" in Spanish (and possibly other languages), at least as far as I
know. Unfortunately, I don't know Spanish or any other language that has
this sound... However, it somehow feels like an "r" to me, and I've been
thinking of making [G] at least one realization of the phoneme /r/ in my
conlang.
I'm relatively new to conlanging and haven't created much so far,
therefore I'm unsure about this and would like to know: Does this sound
like a completely odd idea to you, or is it even quite reasonable?!
- Marcel
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