Re: Strange phonology

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:20:03 -0300 FFlores <fflores@...> writes:
>I'd like to know your opinion on some sounds
>I intend to have in a new language.
>
>1) Have you ever heard of an aspirated trill?
>I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, represented as
><rh>, which would be /r/ with a simultaneous
>aspiration. I mean, it looks possible, but I don't
>know if it exists anywhere and if it could contrast
>with a non-aspirated trill /r/.
Well, i can certainly pronounce it, and it sounds cool, so why not?

>3) Is it reasonable to have an aspiration contrast
>for nasals?
With the air coming out of your nose?

>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?
You can also make a stop, a sound which i just discovered recently.  I've
never heard of any of these "lingua(bi?)labial" (i think that's the word)
sounds in any languages.

>
>Thank you all in advance.
>--Pablo Flores

-Stephen (Steg)
 "hhalomot zeh b'emet"

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