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rare sounds (was: easy sounds)

From:# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
Date:Saturday, January 8, 2005, 7:04
I wrote:

>But indepedantly of the natal language, are there some sounds that are >easier to produce?
I would also like to know the reverse thing: wich sounds are the rarest and the most difficult? on the site Arthaey Angosii gave to me: http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/segmental_phonemes.png I've saw the rarest things in the 25 languages [C], [X\], [?\], [4], [r'], [2], [M], and [6] are all spoken by one of the 25 listed languages and the combinaisons [gb], and [mN] are also rare but for other languages and other sounds? If I want rare sounds I will not take [m], [a], [i] but do you know more? Are rare weird combinaisons of a nasal followed by its plosive like [mb], it's labio-dental equivalent, [nd], [Ng]? It is because I suddently want to create a weird language which would sounds special.

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>