Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang
| From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 25, 2002, 20:01 |
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:10:58 -0000 jogloran exponent@TECHNOLOGIST.COM
wrote:
> Stephen Mulraney wrote:
>> <Ryf elcwe nau shuula ar sthoolegh kyn feeagh wriruighenaetha ar laudh>
>> /4yf ElkwE n.au Su:lA A4 sTo:lEG qyn fe:AG w4i4.uiGEn.AETAs A4 l.auD/
> Owee... does the word kyn /qyn/ as above really have a /q/ followed by
> a /y/? That's a bit hard to say...
It does indeed. Is it hard? I generally have lots of trouble with
front vowels following extremely back consonants (like finding them
impossible), but for some reason this doesn't seem difficult to me. I'm
not too sure about the presence of [q] in the lang's phonemic intentory.
If it proves too troublesome it may just go > /kw/ before back vowels
and maybe > /g/ before front vowels... By the way, [q] is the only
phoneme in the lang with allophones articulated on the uvula - so you
can make it a /G/ or even a /X/, /R/ or /N/ if you want. After all
the main thing that distinguished ot from /k/ is that sort of uvular
'hollow' sound.
Anyone else have trouble with this (maybe I'm just pronouncing it wrong ;)
but I don't think so...) ??
Stephen