Re: fewest sounds?

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:43:06 -0500, Reilly Schlaier
>
> <schlaier@...> wrote:
>
> > what are the fewest sounds in any language i was
> wondering how
> > many sounds are required to make a language work
>
As an experiment to make a language easily lip-readible I made the
self-segregating language Pikutu with 6 phonemes a, i, u, p, t, k:

http://galimathias.free.fr

P is for any labial, t for any dental and k for anything not joining the lips or
moving the tongue. I could speak a few words of it.

µ.