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Re: Affricatives

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 14:56
Staving Elyse Grasso :
>Are there back affricatives? The ones I can think of are English CH and >J, and Japanese tsu and the voiced equivalent, and Pf. (Is there a >voiced labial affricative found anywhere?) > >But English tends to front-load its consonants compared to languages >like Arabic. And it's hard to have back affricatives in a language >where the only back fricative is H and a lot of dialects don't even >have that one. > >I can almost 'hear' a k affricating(?) with a German ch, though it would >take practice to pronounce it. (Actually, the stop would be farther >back than an English k.) And I'm not sure what a voiced form would >sound like... > >
One of my conlangs, currently called "Montanic", has a sound change where each of the fricatives from its parent language, Khangathyagon, has become the corresponding affricate. This includes a glottal affricate, which sounds a bit like coughing when I try to pronounce it. f th s sh kh h [f] [T] [s] [S] [x] [h] v dh z zh [v] [D] [z] [Z] become pf tth ts ch kkh 'h [pf] [tT] [ts] [tS] [kx] ['h] bv ddh dz j [bv] [dD] [dz] [dZ] respectively. Whether some of these exist in natlangs or not is another matter. Pete Bleackley

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