Re: New Language - Altsag Venchet

Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> writes:

> This inventory seems a bit unsymmetric. Nothing necessarily wrong with that,
> but are there any intrafictional reasons for this? I mean, there are for
> instance no voiceless labials, even though based on analogy with the
> dentals/alveolars and the velars one'd expect *p and *f to turn up.
Well, I was going to say Arabic has no /p/ but that's old news. :)
And I understand Japanese lost (almost) all of its /p/'s (> /h/) at a
certain point. Maybe there were both /p/ and /f/ and they were lost
together, which would be even better (two related sounds lost
together is easier to explain).

> that voiced uvular stops are impossible
Unless I'm pretty much lost, I just made a voiced uvular stop! If a stop
can be produced there, and voiced sounds too (cf. /R/), why not a voiced
stop? Maybe I'm producing something else...


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