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.
AFMC Sohlob has /ts\/, /dz\/ and /s\/, as well as [z\] as an
allophone of /dz\/ before /d/.  I'm also pretty sure that [l\]
exists as an allophone of /r/ in Kedjeb (aka proto-Sohlob).

> Suchlike I have never seen a conlang with an [x\],
My natlang L1 (Swedish) supposedly has /x\/, but in fact [x\]
is a minority pronunciation, albeit the one favored by the public
proadcasting networks.  My idiolect has [x], which beside [s`]
is the majority pronuciation.  Otherwise the Swedish "/x\/"
phoneme has a lot of cool dialectal realizations.  My father
for example used [x_W] or [x_p\]!  Swedish has /s\/ too, BTW.

> much less with anything epiglottal.
Perhaps because people prefer to endow their conlangs with sounds
they can pronounce!

>
> Why is this? Are these sounds considered aesthetically unpleasant?
No.  As Tristan said there is nothing special about these sounds
except that they don't fit neatly into the main chart.

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