Re: Consonant clusters
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 8, 2002, 20:15 |
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:59:40 +0200 Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> Well, evil consonantal clusters in Maggel are nearly redundant: even
> if I had a
> CV syllable structure, the phonology is evil by itself :))) (imagine
> a language
> which distinguishes [w] from [M\]!!! - I mean the labiovelar
> approximant from
> the velar one :)))) -. And imagine that most consonants in Maggel
> Christophe.
-
My Gabwe does that... Proto-Gabwe had /w/ and /l/, but then /l/ in
Standard Tierean Gabwe shifted to a velar lateral, and then to a velar
approximant. It also has /r/. That was the hardest for me,
distinguishing /r/ and /R/ (or /M\/ as you wrote it).
-Stephen (Steg)
"lalala."
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