Re: Delurking...

>From: # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Delurking...
>Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:02:56 -0400
>
>Joseph Bridwell wrote:
>
>> > Uwjge is also intended to be my introduction to
>> > language creation. I've got a few artlang ideas
>> > in the queue - one is an entirely non-pulmonic
>> > language, the other an entirely unvoiced one...
>> > I can "fluently babble" both of them,
>>
>>Cool! My Palu f'Thule lacks any voiced consonants, while my Bez Dis's
>>using the voicing of initial consonants to indicate plurals.
>
>I prefer a conlang where there's no voiceless consonants. I've tried it but
>I had to choose among 3 things I didn't want to keep my phonology large
>enough: voiceless consonants, larger consonant list using velar/uvular or
>dental/alveolar/post-alveolar distinctions, or length, tones, and nasal
>distinctions...
>
>I've chose to add a length contrast on only one vowel (/i/-/i:/) and to add
>/p t k/ BUT with a contrast between aspirated and unaspirated. I like that
>contrast because it gives what seems like homophonous for unexperimented
>hearers
>
>The only of such contrast I can think of now is "kaivb" /kai)bv/ wich is
>the
>root for "to love", and "khaivb" wich is the one for "to be green"
>
kaivb is /kai)vb/ not /kai)bv/ sorry

>- Max