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Re: Velar Laterals (was: Yet another ASCII-IPA scheme...)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, November 12, 2001, 5:17
Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> > The view that laterals are only found at coronal places of articulation > > is an outdated view among the phoneticians of today. Some Papuan and > > East Chadic languages have been found with contrasting velar laterals.
Interesting. An early conlang of mine had velar laterals. Altho, I think in those cases that it was derived from /kl/ or /gl/
> Apparently, the information I relied on was out-dated; well, I'll think > of some symbols for palatal and velar laterals when I find the time to.
Palatal lateral is inverted y, velar is capital L. -- "No just cause can be advanced by terror" ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42