Re: Phonology of Velian

In the last episode, (On Wednesday 04 July 2007 17:49:25), Jörg Rhiemeier
wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 23:23:14 +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > Hi list
> >
> > I'm working on a language game for the list. Whilst you're waiting, you
> > might like to glance at the phonology  of Velian:
> >
> > In what follows I use CXS; bon appetit!
> >
> > [list of consonants snup]
>
> Good grief, that are many - I count 75!  And you don't even have a voicing
> distinction in them.
>
> ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf
Indeed, although getting rid of the nasalised ones in favour of clusters
simplifies it a bit: I count 57 including /Dh Dj Dw/; with the eight or so
vowels (to be described later), that makes for a phonology only slightly
larger than that of English according to the maximum count on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Phonemes

Velian phonotactics, of course, are much different.

Jeff
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