Re: Personal langs and converse of aux

Làtae Yoon Ha:

> Hello Brian, and I'm glad I caught this, because I didn't see the
> original message.  :-p
I didn't see it either! Very strange. And I don't even subscribe via
e/yahoogroups... Hmm... It seems I got thrown out of conlang. Makes
me wonder what messages I never received. A check on the yahoogroups'
website didn't give much since they seem to be _very_ behind.

Anyway, welcome to our list, Brian! :)

Ja làtae Jesse Stephen Bangs:

> This is an interesting question.  The features that are found 'most
> everywhere' are by definition very easy for almost everyone to pronounce,
> since they're already in everyone's language.  These are probably things
> that would be in your language anyway, things like voiced stops, more than
> 3 vowels, etc.
You mean *voiceless* stops and *just* three vowels?

> Aspirated stops distinct from unaspirated stops
> Rounded front vowels
> Unrounded back vowels
> The phones [T] and [D]
> The trilled /r/
> The untrilled American English /r/
> Four different vowel heights, e.g. [i e E a] or [u o C a]
> Front /a/ versus back /a/
> Phonemically distinct geminates
Interestingly enough, Swedish has five out of nine. And it wasn't
that long ago we had [T] and [D] as well. :)

daniel

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