> It's looks quite interesting, although I think I would personally have to
> put more
> detailed study than just a few minutes to give a full answer to that
> question. The
> phonology certainly seems to reinforce the feeling that these people are
> very foreign
> from at least the English perspective. But one thing I'm curious about:
> have you
> considered making a distinctive series of aspirated consonants in contrast
> to
> nonaspirated ones? That might fit in with the alienness of it, but also
> allow you
> a little more phonological freedom in which to work...
>
I'm not following you here. What exactly do you mean by a distinctive
series of aspirated consonants in contrast to nonaspirated ones?