Re: Universally Pronounceable Phonology

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:02:47 -0400, "X. Rayburn" <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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.

Certainly a good point. I'm sure the bilabial form could serve them
well enough!

On the other hand, the typical constructed auxlang user is not a
(presumably poor) edentate person that has no access to basic
dentistry. At least not until some auxlang group manages to take over
the world for real and spread its threatened lingo by force.

Padraic

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