Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 02:54:59 -0000 Tommie Powell
<tommiepowell@...> writes:
>
>Is this just me, or do natural languages that have back-of-the-throat
>consonants tend to not have f and v?
>
>-- Tommie
Hebrew has a number of guttural consonants..../q/, /h/, /6/ (`ayin,
voiced pharyngeal fricative), /H/ (hhet, voiceless pharyngeal fricative),
and /?/ the glottal stop, as well as (in Modern Israeli Hebrew) a uvular
French-like "R".
But it doesn't have the problem of having gutturals followed by F or V,
because after a closed syllable, F becomes P and V becomes B.
There are six consonants like this, referred to as _bege"d kefe"t_ - B/V,
G/GH, D/DH, K/KH, P/F, and T/(TH\S).  In Modern Israeli Hebrew, only the
B, K, and P are changed, while the others are always stop-consonants.  In
other accents, more or less of the consonants are differentiated.

-Stephen (Steg)

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