Re: An Unknown Conlang
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 10, 2000, 2:39 |
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:08:21 -0700, Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:
>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.
>
>The Cyrillic letter looks like an O, but with a smaller loop inside, and it
>resembles an ornate Q.
>
>For what it's worth, the phoneme is also in Tech. It's technically a palatized
>/w/.
Tirelat also has this sound, spelled "wy", in a couple of words, plus the
voiceless equivalent "hwy" in the single word "hwyuhwyu" (a whistling
sound). As in Tech, these sounds are palatalized versions of voiced and
voiceless /w/.
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