Re: Another phonological extreme, was: Nine

--- Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> wrote:
> The discussion of Nine made me envious. I screamed 'Me too!', and
> frightened my poor cat. And I invented another 7-phoneme system,
> completely different, which I outline below.
>
> Please tell me what you think of it.
>
> Basilius
Excellent!  What impressed me was how you qualified a seven-phoneme
language with realistic allophones.  So a phoneme is not necessarily
tighly bound to a phone.  (Not too different from English...)

You can't do that to a Khoisan or North Caucasian language, you know.
Not much room for allophonic deviation.

Speaking of phonological extremes, who here has ever worked on a
conlang, or studied a natlang with a *high* number of phonemes.

(I promise to remain silent on this thread; and please for the love of
God no mention of Tech.  BTW, in a couple weeks I'll have at least 600
native [i.e. Nostratic] words, so I'll talk later.)

DaW.

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