Re: An Unknown Conlang

At 17:08 05/07/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:13:08 +0200 Christophe Grandsire
><Christophe.Grandsire@...> writes:
>> If you want, I can give you a sketch of this language. Its phonology
>> is
>> interesting too, containing the phonemes /y/ and /H/ (the French 'u'
>> - or
>> German 'ü' - and its semivowel conterpart, the semivowel in French
>> 'lui').
>>
>> What do you think if this? Strange event isn't it?
>
>You know, I looked hard but found no language that contained the /inverted-h/
>phoneme outside of French.  Until I discovered it in Abkhaz.  And Abkhaz
has A
>LOT of consonants.
>
I've heard that some Tibetan languages, and maybe even some Chinese
languages had it? Am I wrong?
Anyway it's true that this sound is very rare, but I find it rather stable.
It's in French for a long time now, and I think it comes from the parallel
between the high vowels /i/, /y/ and /u/, and the semi-vowels /j/, /H/ and
/w/.

                                                Christophe Grandsire
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