Re: subconscious sound preferences

Herman Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:17:12 -0600, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> >Herman Miller wrote:
> >> One sound that I tend to avoid even though it's common in English is [f].
> >Do you use [P]?  Most of my langs use /f/, but it's not usually a
> >frequent sound.  Some dialects of W. replace /T/ with /f/, I think.
>
> [P] as in voiceless bilabial fricative? I think only Olaetyan and Niskloz
> use it. I suspect it's more common than [f] in Olaetyan. Through the magic
> of search-and-replace, I find that there are 23 occurrences of "f" in the
> Olaetyan dictionary and 34 occurrences of "ph".
My main conlangs, Dhakrathat and Lainesco, use [P] but not [f] (so
far). My oldest one, Zaraitian, seems to use [f], although I never
really worked out the precise phonology of it.

> Hlererhoi has a voiceless w sound, which is similar.
Is that the same as {wh} in Maori?