Re: THEORY: NATLANGS: Phonology and Phonetics: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Dipht

Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >
> > Classical Klaish, a conlang of mine, has a phoneme that is realized as
> > [h\] or
> > [?\] and corresponds to /a/ as /j/ to /i/ and /w/ to /u/.
> >
> > It mostly goes to zero in descendant langs, but >[h] initially in Telenian
> > and
> > Searixina.
>
> That is probably more logical than the way I'm using h\--- as the lenition
> (ultimately) of /g/. Its usual effect is to lengthen the preceding V, or in
> some cases > @ to produce a V+@ diphthong.  It has a peculiar effect in the
> sequences (Á = stressed V) -Á-h\-V, -V-h\-Á, Á-h\-V-h\# -- here I've decided
> it creates a copy of the preceding V, which works out OK; but in V-h\-Á-h\#
> it only copies the stressed vowel so that e.g. a-h\-ú-h\ > a-uúu (just in
> the course of writing this I've realized the way around this problem--
> unstressed iua > glide jw@, which don't fit the env. for vowel copying)....
>
> Any thoughts, anyone??
[g]>[h\] happened in Ukrainian (and Belarussian?), giving us things like the
city-name Chernihiv; cf Russian Chernigov.

                                               Andreas