Re: Hello All!!

En réponse à william drewery :

>Howdy,
Welcome to this list! :)

>     I just joined the conlang list, and first I would
>like to thank all of you for making this available.
You're welcome, although most of us are not responsible for it. Like you,
we arrived when the house had already been built! :)) So thanks to the
workers who built this house for us! :)

>I'm hoping this will be quite an enriching experience.
I think it will :) .

>     Well, I've been working on a language for about a
>few months now that is nearly finished grammatically,
>but I still need the lexicon. It's a polysynthetic
>language with a very harsh and gutteral phonemic
>inventory inspired by Klingon (in fact, it contains
>virtually every sound in Klingon, and then some). I've
>been contemplating rounding it out with the addition
>of some epiglottal fricatives, but I have no idea how
>to pronounce these. They are found in Agul and other
>languages of the Caucuses, where they contrast with
>both uvular and pharyngeal fricatives.
Wow! You're aiming high! But I agree that polysynthetic languages are
extremely interesting (I should know, I speak one natively ;))))) ).

>  From what I
>understand, they are generated by closing the
>epiglottis and trilling the aryetenoid cartliges
>against the epiglottal base while laterally releasing
>air from the epiglottis. I was hoping someone out
>there might have some pointers for the pronunciation
>of these sounds.
Well, I too would like to learn to pronounce those sounds. Unfortunately I
seem not to be able to do anything but glottal stops past the uvula :((( .

>  I never could master pharyngeal
>fricatives untill somone told me to "grunt while
>constricting your Adam's Apple".
It doesn't help with me :(( . It just gives me nauseae :((( .

Well, I've not been very helpful, but surely someone else will find exactly
what you need here. This list is a wealth of information :)) . So welcome
again! :)

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.