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Re: trQal

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 2:32
Edward Heil <edwardheil@...> wrote:
> (To Patrick Dunn) > > Make "eructative/pulmonic" a vowel distinction. Give every vowel (or some of > them) and eructative counterpart. This could be simulated by humans by using > creaky voice (sounds vaguely like a burp!), and you could use the creaky
voice
> symbol as a diacritic (a tilde underneath the vowel -- in the various > IPA/ASCII representations this shows up as ~ ;~ or _k). Or you could make
up
> your own diacritic that works for you, since TrQal doesn't quite use standard > IPA/ASCII representations anyway.
Could you explain me what creaky voice is? I imagine it, but I'm not sure. To Pat: I think the eructative sounds are really cool. It's a pity that most of us humans are not gifted for belching as a phoneme :).
> > Oh, and maybe you could throw in a little-used phoneme, the "gnash," which is > produced by striking or grinding the fangs together? Perhaps it shows up in > certain threatening interjections....
Is the gnash a phoneme in any natlang? I once thought of using it but it seemed a bit strange. --Pablo Flores * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Universe is not user friendly. Kelvin Throop