Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?
From: | ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> |
Date: | Saturday, August 16, 2008, 16:15 |
Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@...>:
>
> > Would [Gw] really be possible? One would expect it to simplify to [w]
> > pretty much automatically, at least for human speakers. The [NG]
> > sequence looks pretty alien too!
>
>I don't seem to have any trouble pronouncing either cluster, and I don't
>see why
>you'd expect otherwise. [Gw] occurs in Spanish words like _agua_, and [NG]
>doesn't intuitively strike me as odder than, say, [nz].
>
I didn't see any problem with [NG] either; at least Spanish has a few words
with [Nx], "granja" e.g. which at least colloquialy is [Nx] not [nx]; and of
course "un [x...] (masc. noun).