Re: Conlanging masochism ...

Andreas wrote: "One of my favourite speech sounds is [m]. It happens to be a
very common sound in the world's language, being found in a large majority
of them. So one might expect I should in good conscience stuff my conlangs
with it.

"Looking at my conlangs, one will however notice that one, Yargish, lacks it
utterly (along with all other bilabials), while another, Tairezazh, only has
it with a strictly limited distribution; initial, and before other /p/ and
/b/."

Kasin has /f/, for some strange reason - the language has no voice
distinction, except for /b/! So why don't I just replace it with /v/ (which
I like)? *shrugs*

And Kosi has /p/ as well as /b/, but only because I didn't want to stretch
things too far (otherwise there wouldn't be any /p/'s [it also has /t/ and
/d/]): It doesn't have /g/ (which I for some reason hate; something tells me
it should turn into [G], and not just intervocalically! :S). As well, I
chose /B/ over /v/, even though I like [v] more than [B].

(BTW if anyone is wondering why I haven't mentioned Kel, that's because I've
abandoned it.)

On another note: I notice alot of conlangs allow stop+liquid clusters like
[bK] and [tr]. For some reason I hate such clusters, except [tK] and [dK\].
Does anyone else? And I'm OK with most /s/+consonant clusters, except [sv]
and [sK] - anyone else?

Cheers,

Trebor

P.S. Na-Dene languages lack all bilabials but /m/, so if you want an excuse
for that in Yargish ("Well, it's not that unnaturalistic")... :P

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