Re: Voiceless nasals and liquids?
From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
Date: | Thursday, September 30, 2004, 5:44 |
Trebor Jung wrote:
> Do any natlangs (or conlangs, for that matter) have voiceless nasals or
> liquids?
> Trebor
> "Ithkuil is notable in being the only life-threatening conlang."
> --Vlad, Zompist BBoard
Burmese is a typical example of a language with voiceless nasals. A few
sound samples are here:
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/chapter12/burmese.html
I don't recall if any of my languages have voiceless nasals, but Tirelat
has a voiceless trill. Listen to the examples:
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/mp3/Tirelat-rh.mp3
The words illustrated are:
rhaafi "marshmallow"
xiarhi "rough, uneven"
narh "science".