Re: Aelya Phonology

Aidan Grey wrote:
> fric            f/v     th/dh   s       sh      h       ch
Any particular reason why there's no voiced equivalents of "s", "sh",
"h", or "ch"?

> As in English, these
> consonants are all aspirated, except when geminated.
Are they actually geminated?  It doesn't appear so from your examples,
you wrote [pata], not [pat:a] for patta.

Also, can long vowels exist in closed syllables?

Given your examples, it seems that the geminates are not phonemic, only
an orthographic convenience, and that with [patha]/[pa:ta], the
distinction is conditioned by the preceding vowel's length.

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