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Re: A BrSc a?

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Friday, April 26, 2002, 16:26
Ray wrote:
> >the unwritten vowel and unwritten consonant cannot occur > > adjacent to each other (this would tend to mean that > > there would be either no orthographic C-final words > > or no orthographic V-initial words) > > > >The result makes every combination of letters licit and > >pronounceable. The phonotactics are an IAL-friendly CV > >pattern. > >While the CV pattern may be IAL-friendly (and all incarnations of BrSc have >had this pattern), I am not persuaded that all the consonants and the >'unwritten' vowel would be 'IAL-friendly' - What will you do with the usual >'rogues' {c}, {q} and {x}? One person on this list has argued strongly in >the past that the glottal stop is not "IAL-friendly".
How universal does a sound have to be to be considered "IAL-friendly". A good majority of all languages I know something about (a quite small percentage of the total, of course) has some sort of "ishoid" sound like [S s` C c\] - frequently several of them. And as you pointed out yourself some days ago, [x] isn't exactly uncommon either, esp'ly if you include [G X] etc as valid variants. That'd solve {c} and {x}. Possibly [N] for {q}? Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com