Re: A phonology

Staving Jesse S. Bangs:
>Peter Bleackley sikyal:
>
> > Here's a phonology I thought up in connection with my state-based language
> > idea (the one I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, which has only one part of
> > speech and one syntactical rule).
> >
> > Syllable structure
> >
> > [O]V[C]
> >
> > Where O is an onset consonant and C is a coda consonant. Codas are about
> > twice as common as onsets.
>
>This is not a fatal error, but it is an exception: in all natural
>languages, onsets are more common than codas.
>
> > Onset Consonants
> >
> > Possible onset consonants consist of the nasals
> > m       n       ng
> > [m]     [n]     [N]
> > and the approximants
> > w       r       l       y       ll
> > [w]     [4]     [l]     [j]     [5]
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Codas
> > Coda consonants be any of the following stops
> > p       b       t       d       c       gc      k       g       q       qh
> >
> [p]     [b]     [t]     [d]     [c]     [J\]    [k]     [g]     [q]     [G\]
> > '
> > [?]
> >
> > Or any of the fricatives
> > ph      bh      þ       ð       sh      j       lh      x       gh      h
> > [p\]    [b\]    [T]     [D]     [S]     [Z]     [K]     [x]     [G]     [h]
>
>This also directly goes against natlang phonology, in which there are
>fewer possible coda consonants than possible onset consonants, and in
>which onsets tend to be stops and codas tend to be sonorants. If you're
>trying to be deliberately strange, that's fine, but I thought I'd warn
>you.
>

Yes, you've got me, I am trying to be deliberately strange. You remember
that Idea I had a couple of weeks ago for a 1POS language where almost
everything depended on context? It's the phonology for that. Of course, as
a speaker of a language where [N] is always syllable final, a phonology
where it can only be syllable initial is just the kind of thing I'd do for
weirdness value.

Pete

Pete