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Re: Strange phonology

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 13:21
Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> wrote:
> >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? > > Ah! A man after my own heart. I love building obscenely bizarre stuff > like this into my langs. I think Nik Taylor already gave you a good > name for this one. Have you ever looked at my q~'u^pl! phonology?
Oh yes. I think I could manage to pronounce 20% of the sounds. Clicks in particular are extremely difficult for me. The trills are another thing. I had wanted a bilabial trill for my lang, but I found it's difficult to pronounce if your lips are dry :-( [snip]
> I also have several sounds which I classed as "precussives" > which are made by banging different parts of the vocal aparati against > each other.
I once created a bit of a language for a short story with a sound produced by banging the tongue against the base of the mouth. I guess you could also bang your lower and upper teeth againt each other, but I don't see any other way!
> > BTW, anyone have any idea what to call the sound you can make by forcing > little air bubbles between your gum and upper lip??? >
You mean by filling the space between them with air and then letting it go. It's a really weird sound. You might name it "globulo-labial" ;-) More seriously, it takes some time to make -- I'm not sure you could use it without stopping the flow of a conversation. But that's your stuff :) Speaking of which, how do you call a sound made by pressing the upper teeth against the interior side of the lower lip, and then separating them with a little "fuzzy pop"? I think you might call it ingressive (or something of the sort) because the air pops in, not out. --Pablo Flores * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * And the Lord said unto Job, "There's no reason for it. It's just policy." Kelvin Throop