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
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