Re: Cerebral consonants & transliterarion

Daniel Andreasson wrote:

> Wow! Imagine that. I've been able to help Sally the Conlanger Estelvema! :)
> (was that even remotely correct?)
Wow, Daniel!  :) :) :)  Gee.. I don't know what to say...  Yes, you have helped!  And so has
Kristian.  If that's what it is, then a dialect--or sub-accent--of Teonaht does have this
feature--a little. Teonaht proper rolls its "r"s, but "Menarilihs" has an exaggerated
retroflex "r"
and the lr of _lre_ _lrapa_ (finger, toe) and other words are pronounced as one
consonant with the tongue curled back.  I've toyed at times with making these people
pronounce all their final "l"s with a hint of an "r"--but didn't pursue it as it made them
sound like bad stereotypes of  some Asian tourists..  I might take this up again, though.
Teonaht has a rich set of gr/kr/dr/tr/lr/hr/tl compounds that situates their speech well
back towards the palate.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net/~scaves
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html