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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.