Re: Pronouns revised and word generation

S'mae,
Ysgrifennodd Thomas R. Wier:
> > > Also, I realized that it was bad form to have a very
> > > rare sound (the glottal stop), so I amend my reflexive
> > > pronouns to aha-, ehe-, ...
> >
> > Huh? Is it really rare? As a phoneme, it s present in an awful lot of
> > languages, not to mention the cases when it is a phonetic thing, where
> > it's virtually omnipresent :-) I'd say that the forms you cite (aha-...)
> > would tend to merge into long vowels (well, in my language they did :-))
>
> Well, I think it's fair to say that /?/ or [?] are *more*
> marked than other stops at other places of articulation,
> like /p t k/ ~ [p t k].  /h/ ~ [h] is in a rather similar
> situation.
Fair enough. Compare the frequency of /p t k/ in the languages of the world
and the glottal stop... Ouch. :-)
I think Hixkaryana is about the only one with no /p t k/. But then it is
sooo weird in about every respect, no surprise :-)

Hwyl fawr,
Pavel

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