Re: Interlect: YAIAL, a personal view

Raymond Brown wrote:


> At 12:38 am +0200 22/4/02, Christian Thalmann wrote:
> >--- 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.
>
> Like Chinese??
>
> If Carlos does have /h/, then there seems to me no reason not to have
/x/
> which could have [h] as an allophone.  IIRC both Mandarin Chinese and
> Spanish /x/ have this allophonic variant.
Well, the idea is that /x/ (put as /x/ and not as /h/ for fitting in the
chart) would have free variation between [x] and [h]; as /c/ between
[c], [cC] and [tS].  I only had /x/ which is written <h>.

In my new sketches I had get rid of the palatal articulations and
allowed more Cj- clusters instead.  I will translated them soon, or
rather put them in a webpage.

-- Carlos Th