Re: Hiksilipsi Consonant Phonology

Jesse Bangs wrote:
>
>On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:44:24 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
>> My version had only 2 vowels, high/low, central i.e. /@ a/, with
>> allophones
>> e.g.
>>     /p@/ [p@],    /py@/ [pi],  /pw@/ [pu]
>>     /pa/ [pa],  /pya/ [pe],  /pwa/ [po]
>> One could get quite baroque if one were so inclined.......
>
>That is weird.  How would you arrive at the consonant grade system to
>describe this, instead of just positing six vowels?
>
That same thought hit me shortly after devising the system.  I don't
remember enough of it now-- maybe symmetry, symmetry, or likely something to
do with the writing system.  In any case, it went down the Memory Hole.
Actually a bit survives in my rudimentary Gwr material, where /Cyi/ > [Ci:]
or /Cwu/ > [Cu:], but that's to be expected I think.