Re: telepaths, sound changes, age changes, v changes, and lexicon

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 03:51:18 -0400 Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
writes:
> Yo hey, maybe anyone can help me.  Proto-Hadwan has these three pure
> sibilants (i.e., non-affricates) <s> /s/, <s,> (s-cedilla), and <s'>
> (s-caron) /S/.   As you can see I have reasonable phonetic values
> for <s>
> and <s'>, but not one for <s,>, anybody have any ideas?  It develops
> from IE
> palatal *k, and results in Hadwan /s/  (...eventually).
>      *Muke!
> --
-

My favorite 3-sibilant system (well, actually it's 6, with both voiceless
and voiced versions) is:
{plain s} = /s/
{s-hacek} = /S/
{s-acute} = /S*/

/S*/ is a whistling kind of sibilant made at the same place as /S/ but
with the tip of the tongue.  It's voiced version sounds like "throat
singing", or at least what ends up happening when i followed the
directions on a website someone posted here.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Z'U-POAvKQ?  Just call me 'Bo'."