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

Quoting John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:


>
> And now for a new sub-topic. Do any languages have overtly pharyngeal
> glides? That is, akin to the vocalization of German final /R/ (which could
> be seen as a uvular glide), are there languages where there would be reason
> to analyze /?\/ rather than non-syllabic /a/ or /A/??
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.

                                         Andreas

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