Re: CHAT: (no subject)

> Well, Spanish for one distinguishes between |r| and |rr| (supply your own
> phonology as appropriate). But IIUC the place of articulation is the same.
>
> A conlang that differentiated between 3 Rs would be kinda cool...
Mine doesn't have 3, but my two related conlangs each have 2. One is the flap/tap,
I don't have my chart on me but I seem to recall it's "4", and the other is the
upside-down lower-case r in IPA. However, the latter is always syllabic and is
considered a vowel, while the former is considered just another consonant. My
romanization uses "r" for both but the actual orthography uses two different
letters.

Incidentally, the languages also distinguish between "4" and l (which is sometimes an onset
and sometimes syllabic but represented in both cases by one letter, as with
i/j, u/w, and y/whatever its associated glide is that I can never remember the
symbol for).

Heather

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