Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

--- Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, SuomenkieliMaa wrote:
>
> > --- Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
> > > That particular sound is an allophone of Korean
> "r"
> > > in the position you
> > > mention.  :-)  Try to get a Korean to pronounce
> "l"
> > > at the *beginning* of
> > > a syllable and you'll probably get Korean "r"...
> >
> > I'm sure you are right, but I think the Korean r/l
> has
> > more "character" (ie, chic sound) over the
> Japanese
> > pseudo-r/l!
>
> Oro?  :-p  Well, chacun E(?) son gout, as they say;
> and while the
> distribution of the Korean r/l differs, the "r" is
> an alveolar tap, which
> I think is the same as Japanese "r" in many
> contexts.  Put the Korean r/l
> in your own conlangs; it'd be interesting to see
> (and I can think of
> very, very few conlangs that take any influence from
> Korean...one of
> mine, not unsurprisingly, is one of them, but that's
> because it's one of
> the few languages I know about).
And that's too bad, because the Korean language (like
the people) is dynamic.  I'd love to incorporate some
of its magic into my own conlangs, but for the time
being, Vya:a:h has enough natlang influence --
although its unique character system does resemble
Hangul in a way.


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