Re: Strange phonology

FFlores wrote:

> 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/.
Teonaht has one, which it contrasts with a non-aspirated
trilled "r":  hr and r.   Welsh might have what you call
an aspirated trill, as in Rhonabwy, but I've only really
ever heard it as a kind of hissed "flap."  That's not
describing it very well.

Sally

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