Re: Bat Sounds & Phonology
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 6, 2003, 20:38 |
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>I have an idea for a race of creatures that evolved from bats instead of
>protosimians and I'd like to give them a realistic language. The only
>problem is, I can't find any real sounds of bats that haven't been
>electronically altered! So, what kinds of phonemes do you all suppose they
>might use? (I'd prefer to keep this in the human audible range, though, so
>don't get too crazy!)
_Becoming Alien_ and _Being Alien_ by Ben Bova feature a race of aliens with
bat-like ancestors. Not much on the language though other than it being
holographic.
Other than that, I'd suggest looking at the differences between bat mouth &
throat structures and human ones (eg. are the trachia and esophagus totally
seperate? or are the variably seperate by something akin to the glottis?). I
tried to base my incomlete conlangs Trayiss Laafaah [t`Aj1s: LAp/a:h] ]and
Lælæ Vÿrmïs [l&l& vyrmis] on serpent and protosimian mouth & throat
structures.
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