Re: clan of the cave bear conlang

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, andrew wrote:
>Nice idea, when I searched out a book on reconstructed Neanderthal
>phonetics some years ago - title now forgotten - it made it clear that
>Neanderthals did not have articulation in the back of the mouth.  I'll
>have to look out my notes that took...no wait I've found them:
>
>vowels: I E A & @
>Consonants: d t p b s z v f m n T D
>
>Doesn't give much to work with I'm afraid.  I like the idea of a spatial
>language though.
More than Hawaiian!  Consonants at least, since H seems to have oodles
of vowels.  The above vowels could surely be expanded with length or
tonal variations; and for consonants I'm surprised they don't list B
and w.  Surely if they could handle b, the other two aren't too far
off.

>
>I'm afraid that the Earth's Children Series was one that I gave up on.
>Half way through either the first or the second book it seemed to me
>that Jean Auel decided she had got tired of writing about a strong
>independent woman and decided to write a romance instead.  It irritated
>me because it felt inconsistant.  Sorry.
I don't think I ever got that far.

Padraic.

>
>- andrew.
>--
>Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
>
>                      "Piskie, Piskie, say Amen
>                   Doon on your knees and up agen."
>
>                    "Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend;
>                   Sit ye doon on mon's chief end."
>                               - Attributions unknown.
>