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Re: Tiny lexicon languages

From:Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Date:Thursday, June 17, 1999, 19:22
Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Sally Caves wrote: > >> >> And so it goes... the bird conlanger hard at work in her book-lined >> study... >> ;-) ;-) ;-) Sally >> > >I like this language - but I'd like to see a bit of phonology to go =
with
>it? (For the sound the tip of the tongue makes at the ridge of the bill =
-
>what's bill in Latin?. Intra-uvualar trills, too - and it's probably a >tonal language with up-and-down-drift, too!)
Sally could save herself the trouble of figuring out the anatomy of a=20 bird's speech mechanism by making this a language for human bird brains=20 - hence using a human's speech mechanism instead. ;-) -kristian- 8)