Re: Weird Phonemes on CXS

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:56:47 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

>Hi!
>
>> 3)  Distinguishing rounded and unrounded alveolar clicks
>
>ARGL!  All I wrote was crap!
>
>   - Mistake 1: _o means lowered, more rounded is _O,
>   - Mistake 2: _O and _c are for vowels.
>
>How about:
>
>   !\     for unrounded and
>   !\_w   for rounded (using the labialised diacritic)
Ok.  That ought to work. Thanks!

It was that _O and _c being for vowels that was messing up my mind, since
clicks are technically consonants (at least, they look that way on CXS).
Still, that categorization has always puzzled me, since I find is just as
easy to go from a click to a consonant (or vice versa) as to/from a vowel.

No details yet on the language; I'm thinking it might be a tribal tongue
from the same world as the Xinkutlan.

Incidentally, almost all of the Xinkutlan grammar I posted may well become
obsolete shortly, as I'm radically overhauling it and making it better.

(OT:  what is it about posting something that makes me immediately want to
go out and perform radical alterations on it???)

Cheers,
G