Re: Strange phonology

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> 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?
>
> I know of no language with those sounds, but I guess you'd call them a
> "linguolabial" sound.
Thanks for the idea. Now I'll have to think of how to
represent them. I've found that both sounds seem to be
lateral in a way (the air has to go along the lower gums
to get out the lower lip, and your cheeks expand!) so I
think it could be <L> (for either one). I don't think
I will have both...


--Pablo Flores

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