Re: Language sketch -- Lassaptakl

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jeffrey Henning wrote:

> Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> comunu:
>
> > vowels and diphthongs
> > a  i  u
>
> > Consonents:
> > p t c s m l
>
> Your phonetic inventory is almost identical to Pitakosilano, which has /o/
> instead of /u/ and /n/ instead of /l/.  Is this a strange coincidence or did
> you look at Pitakosilano first?  Just curious.
>
> Your syllable patterns are very different, since Pitakosilano only allows
> CV.  You seem to use C(C)V(V)(C) as your syllable pattern, which gives the
> language much greater variety, even given its pauce phonetic inventory (I
> just made up 'pauce', as a backformation from 'paucity').  Are there any
> restrictions on the distribution of the second consonant in C(C)...?  Have
> you written up your phonotactics yet?
There are, but I don't know what they are yet.

I pretty much took the phonetic inventory from the discussion of sparse
phenomes.  But I forgot that I added /f/.

>
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>
> Jeffrey Henning
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