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.