Re: New Conlang: S4
| From: | Muke Tever <alrivera@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 6, 2001, 4:47 |
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>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List
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>At 10.17 p.m. 5.10.2001, you wrote:
>>(some dialects of Itakian have pre-aspirated 'liquids' - liquids are /r/,
>>/n/, /j/ and /w/ in Itakian -, but other dialects replace them with normal
>>liquids), and not difficult to transcribe :) .
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>Aren't these fairly common? Old English had them, didn't it? At least, /hr/
>(The cognate word for 'right' maybe?), /hl/ (its cognate word for 'laugh'
>and 'loaf') and /hw/ (hw&t). And Modern English has /hj/, and /hw/ in some
>conservative dialects.
Yeah, but I think those (except possibly /hw/, for different reasons) should
generally be thought of as sequences of /h+j/ etc. rather than actual
pre-aspiration (in the same way that regular postaspiration is different from
just adding /h/ after a consonant).
*Muke!