Re: water (was:re:sounds like...)

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Od: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
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Data: 23 listopada 1998 05:36
Temat: Re: water (was:re:sounds like...)


>Interestingly, all the Lumanesian words that have something to do
>with water start with a lateral fricative. That sound has a wet and
>slippery sound to my ears. Perhaps it has got something to do with
>the fact that many such words in English that have that wet and
>slippery feel to it start with the 'sl' cluster; e.g., slurp, slime,
>slip. Below are some words in Teka (a Lumanesian language) with the
>lateral fricative.
>
>[L@hTa] 'water'
>[Lu:pa] 'drink, sip'
>[L@j?] 'drip'
>[Lub?ma] 'rain'
>[Lu~N?] 'sea'
>[L@~N?ka] 'condensation, condense'
>
>where: [L] =3D lateral fricative
>       [T] =3D lamino denti-alveolar stop
>       [N] =3D velar nasal
>       [@] =3D schwa
>       [~] =3D marks nasalization of the preceding vowel
>
>Stress occurs in the first syllable of each of the words listed.
>Stressed syllables also have phonemic tones marked in the following
>way:
>       - syllable final [h] =3D marks a slightly breathy level tone
>       - syllable final [?] =3D marks a falling tone with a creaky
>       voiced coda.
>       - other stressed syllables without [h] or [?] codas have
>       falling tones with a modal voiced coda.
>       NB.: Some dialects fail to make the distinction between the
>       last two tones. Thereby simplifying the tonal opposition to
>       even and non-even tones.
>

i think i got the same 'l'-water syndrome
low -water
lahe, lae -sea
sile - stream

thats word proposition for my unfinished conlang...
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