Re: Random |mormon| :-) (was: my proposals for a philosophical language)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 25, 2003, 15:23 |
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I wrote:
>Hm, (un-)happily, /mormon/ violates the phonotactics of all the conlangs of
>mine that have had any serious work on them - Tairezazh can't have
>non-final
>/m/, Steienzh can't have /o/ in a non-initial syllable, Altaii can't have
>the sequence /-rm-/, Kalini Sapak, Tersnuvu and Yargish don't even have
>/o/.
I meant, of course, that Tairezazh can't have non-initial /m/.
Non-initial [m] occurs, but only as an allophone of /n/ occuring before
labial consonants. Eg _tshenp_ [tSEmp] "forest".
Andreas
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