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

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.

Pete

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