Re: new(?) phoneme discovered

Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> per pêca:

>How many other weird and wonderful sounds can be found among our
>conlangs?
I'm not sure about "weird and wonderful," but I find them
interesting.  In the ancient Senjecan culture, six was a mystical
number & so many phenomena in the language and the culture occur
in groups or multiples of six.

The 24 consonants can be placed on a grid of three columns (stops,
affricates, & sonorants) & four rows (labial, dental, alveolar,
& palatal).  Each of the consonant phonemes occurs in a voiced & a
voiceless pair.  In the sonorant column occur the voiceless
consonants m_0, l_d_0, 4_0, & j-0.  (On this list I write them as
mh, lh, rh, & jh.)  I'm sure they occur in natlangs or other
conlangs, but they are unusual to me.  The most difficult of the
four is the /l_0/, which must not be confused with /L/.  It may be
the same as /K/.  On the Wikipedia x-sampa page /l/ is described as
an alveolar lateral approximant.  I want /l_0/ to be the unvoiced
counterpart.  /K/ is described as a voiceless alveolar lateral
fricative.  Is "voiceless alveolar lateral approximant" the same
as "voiceless alveolar lateral fricative"?  Feedback welcome!

The other phoneme which is unusual to me is /j_0/.  This must not be
confused with /h/.  /h/ is a voicelss glottal fricative.  /j_0/ is a
voiceless palatal approximant.

Charlie

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