Re: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:36:10 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>"Isaac A. Penzev" <isaacp@...> writes:
>> Chris Bates wrote:
>>
>> > I get English, Spanish (well, one dialect of Spanish... the rest just
>> > pronounce it s)... *thinks* what else am I missing? I know there are
>> > lots more... Arabic has it doesn't it? I might be wrong about that one...
>>
>> I can add Arabic, Swahili, Mn Greek, Bashkir, Turkmen (not sure about this
>> one).
>>...
>
>And Icelandic and Faeroese (is that the spelling of the language of
>the 'Island of Sheeps').
Not Faroese.  It has replaced */T/ with /t/, and in a very few cases
with /h/!  This inspired me to the wholesale replacement of */T/
by /h/ in my Vínlenzka.

>
>BTW: Is there an online data base of phonemes (or maybe phones) for
>     different languages?  I mean, it would be neat to click on [T]
>     and have a list of langs compiled by a script...  And then to hit
>     the [natlangs only] button... ....*dreaming*...
There is always UPSID, but AFAIK it is hellish to access...

>**Henrik, always thinking in scripts.  And writing scripts to do the
>work that could be done manually is a tenth of the time of
>programming.

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