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Re: Interlect: YAIAL, a personal view

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Monday, April 22, 2002, 2:09
From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...>

> --- In conlang@y..., Carlos Thompson <chlewey@C...> wrote: > > > Phonology: > > The language has the following set of phonemes (orthography at the > > right) > > consonants: > > m p b f w | m p b f w > > n t d s r l | n t d s r l > > c J\ C j | c j x y > > k g x | k g h > > Using /x/ in an IAL might not be the best of ideas. It's missing in > many of the world's most-spoken languages.
It exists in Esperanto, but isn't used very much (mainly Greek loans like _hxaoso_ "chaos"). Also, /x/ could have an allophone of [h]. My Trolls have H, but it's actually pronounced [G\] (IPA gamma) or not at all. I do think having both "ich-Laut" and "ach-Laut" in an IAL isn't too practical, however. ~Danny~