Re: Sounds in Conlangs

bob thornton wrote:
> This is a question.
>
> How many of your conlangs have any of the "Other
> Symbols" in the IPA? It seems to me that they are both
> rare in natlang and conlang, exepting the [w] [W]
> pair.
>
> Suchlike I have never seen a conlang with an [x\],
> much less with anything epiglottal.
>
> Why is this? Are these sounds considered aesthetically unpleasant?
>
A number of my langs have [s\] and [z\], but Jarda is the only one that
immediately comes to mind.

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Jarda/

An earlier version of Tirelat had the sound [H], as in the word "wjaki"
[Haki] "by means of" ("viaki" in a more recent version of Tirelat), plus
a voiceless version of this sound, [H_0], as in the word "hwjuhwju"
[H_0yH_0y] ("whistle"). The current Tirelat word list has "yaki"
[i\aki], which is almost certainly wrong (copied from an older word list
where "yaki" represented [Haki]).... Or maybe I should bring back /H/ as
a Tirelat sound....

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Tirehlat-old.html

Actually, I think I might want to revive some of the bizarreness of this
version of Tirelat. It had both voiced and voiceless fricative trills, a
pair of voiced lateral fricatives (alveolar and palatal), and a number
of other unusual features.

Kirezagi also has the /H/ sound, as in the word "ÿeza" [Heza].

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/kirezagi.html
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/ra/k-yueza.ra