Re: Strange phonology

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 :-(

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> 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

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