Re: Universally Pronounceable Phonology

In article <fcngsn$1tr$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Logan Kearsley
<chrono.surfer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I don't typically go in for auxlangs, but I've started helping out with
a 
> small group project, and I'm trying to design a phonological system
that's 
> as close to universally pronounceable as possible.

> g- glottal plosive
>  j- postalveolar fricative
> v- labiodental fricative

You will probably think I am joking here but I am serious. In many
parts of the world modern dentistry has not become available yet and
people lose a lot of their teeth as they become elderly. Thus any
phonemes dependent on teeth are questionably universal.