Re: Delurking...

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"

- Max

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