Re: Tones to make up for lack of phonemes

I was going to include 2 vowels: a & i      I was only talking about the
consonants of the language.

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:16 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>wrote:

> SolReSol was a musical language based on the Western scale.
> Presumably that would fit the bill.  Also, why not just a vowel
> for your phoneme?  Not all creatures can make a [b]; just about
> all of them can cry.
>
> -David
> *******************************************************************
> "A male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."
> "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
>
> -Jim Morrison
>
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>
> On Dec 26, 2008, at 6∞12 PM, Vincent Pistelli wrote:
>
>  I want to make a language that has just the bare minimum of phonemes,
>> preferably ones that anything with vocal cords can pronounce.  I was
>> thinking just bilabial stops with a bunch of tones to make up for major
>> lack
>> of phonemes, but that would require a really good ear. Do any of you know
>> any other phonemes that could theoretically be pronounced by anything with
>> a
>> mouth, vocal cords, and a capacity speak and understand language?
>>
>

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