Voiced/unvoiced fricative discrepancy (and Collective Plurals)

Thanks Andreas - and thanks to everybody else who responded too!

You've given me a few things to think about when I start to develop the
history and future of the language, as well as reassuring me that I'm not
completely off base in my guesses about phonology (and collective plurals
also!)

Andy

>From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Voiced/unvoiced fricative discrepancy
>Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:54:49 +0000
>
>Earlier this week, there was a thread about the naturalness of a system
>with
>both voiced and uncoived stops, but only unvoiced fricatives. I thought
>somebody 'd like to now that one of my sketchier conlangs, Siréazh
>([sre:aZ]
>- this is the Tairezazh term; haven't worked out what the native is yet!)
>had the following cutish system of stops and fricatives during a period of
>it evolution
>
>p   t   k
>f   s   x
>b   d   g
>v B z D G R
>
>Later this was simplified by B>v, D>z, G>zero and R>G. It may be noted that
>/R/ is from earlier /G/ ...
>
>                                                   Andreas
>
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