----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: A phonology
> 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.
>
> 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]
>
> Vowels
>
> Vowels are
> i a u
> [i] [&] [u]
> Where two vowels occur adjacently within a word, they must be different.
>
> 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]
>
> I've got an auto generated list of 2000 works created using this
phonology,
> which I'll send off-list to anyone who wants to see it.
I'm interested. You can send it to the following address:
fa597525@skynet.be. That's a 50 MB e-mial box. Then don't bother about the
size of the attachement.
--
Jean-François Colson
jfcolson (a) belgacom.net