deini nxtxr wrote:
>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
>
>>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:43:16 -0500, deinx nxtxr wrote:
>>>> Phonologically it only has one really odd phoneme.
>> Huh? What is the one odd phoneme? How can an isolated
>> phoneme be odd?
>
> By "odd" I meant "uncommon". The phoneme in question is /t_l_h/. ISTR reading
> that Okrand specialized in the North American languages found in the West so
> it's not too surprising. I know Nahuatl/Aztec has /t_l/.
I would have picked /qX/ as the one odd phoneme, actually.