Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 16:18 |
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:00:56PM -0400, Matt Trinsic wrote:
> Mark,
> Okaikiar sounds interesting. Is there anywhere online to see a
> description or more information on it? I have always been fascinated by
> syllabaries, how does yours work? Coincidentally.
I'm working on an online description of Okaikiar. The actual language
stuff is still incomplete, but you can see and play with the writing system
here:
http://thereeds.org/~mark/conlang/okaikiar/script.rhtml
> from a weekend trip during which I decided to add a voiced TH/
> non-voiced Th distinction to slaalehg ihkreen, as most of the other
> phonemes did make that distinction.
As Christophe pointed out when I was going through this, that's no reason.
Languages are notoriously inconsistent in their phoneme inventory;
in the case of [T]/[D], English doesn't distinguish them phonetically
even though it makes that distinction elsewhere. :)
(English has both sounds but they're not phonemically distinct; initial
and medial "th" is always [D] while final "th" is always [T]).
-Mark
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