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Re: Strange phonology

From:Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 9:36
Adam Walker wrote:

> 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. >
Have you considered _coordinated_ trills? One of my favorites :-) although I don't use it in rtemmu, is a bilabial-alveolar-uvular trill, i.e. trilling all three places at the same time! Dan Sulani -- likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a. A word is an awesome thing.