Re: Strange phonology
From: | byron walker (vlad) <umwalk05@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 6:44 |
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From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Strange phonology
>...>FFlores wrote:
>> 4) I just produced a sound more or less like the
>> one a child might produce when he sticks out the
>> tip of his tongue between his teeth, and blows.
>> I found in this way you can produce a trill
>> (makes your lower lip shake) or an approximant
>> (air going between the tongue and the lower lip),
>> though I don't know if they exist in any language,
>> or how to call them. What do you think?
>
>I know of no language with those sounds, but I guess you'd call them a
>"linguolabial" sound.
>
i have heard of an australian aborigini cerimonial languages that has the
sound you describe.......however, i can't remember what the name of it is
right now.