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?
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?  All
the initial consonants of roots are trills (bilabial, laminolabial,
interdental, alveolar, uvular, nasal and many others) all the final
consonants are clicks or similar sounds (basically all the same POA as
above).  (I believe I was told that some of them are not technically
clicks.)  I also have several sounds which I classed as "precussives"
which are made by banging different parts of the vocal aparati against
each other.

BTW, anyone have any idea what to call the sound you can make by forcing
little air bubbles between your gum and upper lip???  I'm thinking of
trying THAT sound out in an alien lang.

Adam Walker

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