Re: New Conlang: S4

En réponse à Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

>
> A lot of modifiers, actually.  Currently, the romanisation has
> monsters like `gncttekx' for a single phoneme (a velar-prenasalised,
> voiceless, long, dental click with velar affricate release). :-))))
>
> Actually, I can produce this sound, but only with a hell lot of
> concentration and only *once* in an isolated position.  No idea how to
> ever be able to pronounce that fluently in a poem!  But if I succeed,
> I'm sure it will sound so weird!
>
You can PRONOUNCE this monster? I've managed to produce clicks in isolation,
but never been able to modify them in anything! (In a page about Xhosa, I've
seen something about aspirated clicks. How can you aspirate a click?!! As for
using a click in an actual word, it's far beyond my capacities! But hey, I'm
still trying to pronounce an actual Arabic `ayn, but the most back I can go is
uvular fricative :(( )

>
> Yes, exactly.  `t' in English is postaspirated and, because there is
> no confusion with preaspiration in English, it is simply called
> aspirated.  Simply have the aspiration in front, and it is
> preaspirated.  Like in Icelandic:
>
>  {t}   [th]   post-aspirated, voiceless, alveolar plosive
>  {d}   [t]    non-aspirated,  voiceless, alveolar plosive
>  {tt}  [ht]   pre-aspirated,  voiceless, alveolar plosive
>
At least, that I can do without much trouble. I should think of a language with
three series of stops: voiceless, voiceless pre-aspirate, voiceless post-
aspirate. Could be nice :) (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 :) .

> Björk's last name has that: Guðmundsdóttir ["g_0vYDmYnts"tOUhtI:r]
> :-)))
>
I don't wonder anymore why she uses only her first name :)) .

Christophe.

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