Re: new(?) phoneme discovered

>Interesting thought: Is there a terminological distinction possible and/or
>needed between natphonemes and conphonemes? I'm sure several of us have odd
>phones that do not occur (or at least do not occur contrastively) in any
>known natlang. For instance, I have toyed with a click-like epiglottal
>implosive more than once, and I had one phonology sketch with two degrees
>of creaky voice.
Yeah, but why should that matter? There's also phonemes that only occur in
one natlang, too.


>Actually, this begs the question: How many other weird and wonderful sounds
>can be found among our conlangs?
>
>For bonus points: What's your proudest moment in phonology / phonological
>system design?
>
>Paul
Do languages designed for non-human mouthparts count?
There's also that click-based IAL ;) sketch of mine which has a few sounds I
still don't know to describe...

On a more normal note however, uwjge has two "consonant difthongs" /ss´/ and
/s´s/, with a flap-like effect unheard in usual fricative clusters. Also,
/R\/ gets allophonic labial flapping before /b/.

In terms of overall design, I don't think I have anything particularily
flauntable yet.

John Vertical

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