Re: Dublex/Katanda hybrid

BTW, I just wackyparsed this title as "Dublex/Katakana hybrid".  That ding any
dongs?

>>Consonants and vowels are pronounced like their IPA equivalents
>>unless indicated otherwise.  They appear freely in the
>>three basic morph types as shown except /q/ may not start
>>a morpheme. In diphthongs, /i/ and /u/ become glides; vowel
>>pairs such as /ae/ are rendered as two syllables with any
>>glottal consonant.
>
>And why not as a "ae" diphthong, such as that of Latin?
Or of Ibran, for that matter, which also has an "oe" diphthong?  ;)

(My obConlang for this post) ;p

>>An unwritten buffering schwa occurs
>>between words that would otherwise yield a geminate
>
>I've always wondered why in English-language lists
>there's kind of a general consensus about geminates
>being "difficult". I don't think any Finnish or Italian
>speaker would see anything difficult in them at all.
>And neither English speakers themselves seem to have
>problems with geminates when they remain unaware of
>being pronouncing them, such as in "night train" or
>"whole land", which don't sound the same as
>"night rain" and "whole and".
Well, considering "night train" is ["nAI?tSrEjn] and "night rain" is
[nAI?"rEjn]...   "whole land" [hoU5"l&~d] and "whole and" ["hoU5n=]... ;)

I dont see anything difficult about geminates, but I am used to preaspirated
geminates in Spanish...


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