Re: Alternating Airstreams
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 3, 2006, 21:40 |
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On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:48:08 -0400, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
wrote:
> <<
> Are there any languages (or is it possible) to have a system where
> phonemes are differentiated by the direction of the airstream?
> >>
>
> No, there are no natural languages where this is done to distinguish
> meaning, but, in theory, it should be possible. If someone tried it
> out in a conlang, it'd be cool to hear a sound file. :)
The pulmonic ingressive lateral fricative in the Australian mystical
language Damin is as far as I know the only pulmonic ingressive phoneme in
any natlang.
Note that velaric and glottalic airstreams are also technically airstreams
as well as the pulmonic. Damin is also the only natlang outside of Africa
that contains clicks (velaric ingressives), and it's the only natlang I
know of with a bilabial velaric egressive (possibly the only natlang
velaric egressive that I know of, but don't quote me).
Paul
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