Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:38:37 -0600 Danny Wier <dawier@...>
writes:
> Conlangs with /G/? Black Speech and Klingon are the two I'm aware
> of....
> ~Danny~
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All of my conlangs have had /G/.

Rokbeigalmki has it, for example in the word |yagh| /jaG/ "fisherman".

Out of the two extant phrases in Mother Language, one of them has it:
|agha'shu| "monster-destroyer".  I don't remember which part of it meant
which, but i think i analyzed ML as a Semitic-like triliteral root system
with a dose of maggelitinous mergings... the compound |agha'shu| if i
remember correctly was based on roots /?gh/ (or maybe /gh?/) and /sh?/
(although now i think /sj?/ would work better).

Gabwe also has [G].  In Standard Tierean Gabwe, [G] is the realization of
/RR/ (geminated velar approximant), as in the name "Tiere" itself: /ti:
E:R RE/ [ti:E:G] (the final /E/ drops)
ool-Nuziiferoi had the phoneme /G/, but i don't remember any words that
used it.

Judajca has [G] as an allophone of /g/.

Actually, Unnamed Semitic Conlang may not have /G/ after all... i think
it shifts proto-Semitic /G/ forwards to a voiced version of /C/.  [G] may
exist as an allophone of /g/, though, i don't remember at the moment.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "stinky cat."

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