Re: OT: sublamino-velar trill (was: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?)

Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Staving Costentin Cornomorous:
>
> >Precisely which bit of the tongue is hitting
> >which bit of the roof of the mouth in this
> >sublamino-velar thing? I can get labial (like
> >trumpet playing), alveolar, apical and velar
> >trills without any difficulty. When it's
> >inflamed, I can get a pretty decent uvular trill.
> >If I knew what sublaminar was (linguistically) I
> >could give that a try too!
>
> Presumably you can manage [B\_N] as well? A sound which children have very
> little difficulty learning, but which is used productively by surprisingly
> few natlangs. It does occur productively in Magzhelyagon, of course.
That would be a linguolabial trill? I can manage it in isolation, but using it
in coherent speech would be a challenge.

                                                 Andreas

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