Re: Rs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <christopher.bates@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: Rs


> Joe,
>       I have started again now, but I've just reinventing it all because
> I read a bit about proto indo european and decided to nick a few bits of
> its phonology, so I'm changing things to fit in the extra sounds. I
> borrowed some of its stop consonants and its tendency to have vocalic l
> r m n y and w. So now I have
>
> p   b   bh      t   d   dh               ti    di    dhi
>      c     g   gh      k   q   qh     '
> mh   m          nh   n                         ni
>    ngh  ng
> f                   s              sh         ç
>           h                                     h
>
>     r
> w                                                    y
>                      l                                 li
>
> I'm not sure if its any good, or at all consistent, I might have to
> revise it again. bh etc are aspirated voiced stops, mh etc are unvoiced
> nasals, ç is a palatal unvoiced fricative, and the velar and glottal
> fricatives are allophones. ' is a glottal stop, k, q etc are labialised,
> the r is a uvular trill (since I can do that in all positions lol) and
> the ti, di, .... li just mean that t d and all the alveolar consonants
> except s become palatised when followed by i or y instead of the i or y
> being pronounced separately. All the fricatives except ç and h become
> voiced when used intervocally or in a voiced consonant cluster. I think
> I might have to remove some sounds....
> BTW, mind me asking if you work at the university or study at it Joe? I
> went for an interview there but I was turned down because I wasn't
> clever enough dammit lol. Plus I pissed off the statistics tutor.
>

No, I don't study at the uni.  Not old/prodigious enough, you see ;-)