Re: new lang idea . . .

En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> bn wrote:
> >i'm not sure whether to use X\ or h\ at the moment
>
> What is [X\]? Based on [x] and [x\], it "ought" to be simultaneous
> postalveolar and uvular voiceless fricative, but I guess that's a bit
> much
> to hope for if the lang's supposed to be "classical".
>
It's actually a voiceless pharyngeal fricative :))) .

>
> What about words with no closed syllable? Among the words in your
> original
> post (which I've industriously deleted), we find things like _desebi_,
> which
> appears to have no closed syllable at all, still less a non-final one.
>
>
Well, just looking at the shape of the word, and remembering that [e] and [i]
are allophones, with [e] under stress and in the first post-stress syllable and
[i] otherwise, |desebi| *ought* to be stressed on the first syllable. Now I may
be wrong, I'm doing that from memory...

Christophe.

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