Re: USAGE: syllables

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:58:30 -0700 JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
writes:
> The ancestor of Yivrian, my main conlang. The grouping of [l] with
> the
> stops is indeed odd, and provides support for the "Obstruent L"
> theory
> that I've bandied about sporadically. Basically, when it comes to
> syllable
> structure, /l/ consistently seems to pattern with the stops and not
> the
> liquids, almost all the way into Modern Yivrian. Thus, the Obstruent
> L
> hypothesis suggests that /l/ was articulatorily a stop at some point
> in
> the past. I don't know what it was, though, since all of the
> related
> languages that I know of have *l reflexed as plain ol' /l/.
> Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
-

Very mysterious...

The many dialects of my Goblin language, Gabwe, have many different
realizations of Proto-Gabwe /l/, including /R/ (velar approximant), /l/,
/L/ (velar lateral), and voiceless /l/.
Original geminated /ll/ can show up as /G/, /l/, /ll/, /LL/, /g/ or
/s<lat>/ depending on dialect.

(full chart at: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/gabwe/Tiereans.jpg
)


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