Re: A phonology

Peter Bleackley sikyal:

> Here's a phonology I thought up in connection with my state-based language
> idea (the one I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, which has only one part of
> speech and one syntactical rule).
>
> Syllable structure
>
> [O]V[C]
>
> Where O is an onset consonant and C is a coda consonant. Codas are about
> twice as common as onsets.
This is not a fatal error, but it is an exception: in all natural
languages, onsets are more common than codas.

> Onset Consonants
>
> Possible onset consonants consist of the nasals
> m       n       ng
> [m]     [n]     [N]
> and the approximants
> w       r       l       y       ll
> [w]     [4]     [l]     [j]     [5]
>
> [snip]
>
> Codas
> Coda consonants be any of the following stops
> p       b       t       d       c       gc      k       g       q       qh
> [p]     [b]     [t]     [d]     [c]     [J\]    [k]     [g]     [q]     [G\]
> '
> [?]
>
> Or any of the fricatives
> ph      bh      þ       ð       sh      j       lh      x       gh      h
> [p\]    [b\]    [T]     [D]     [S]     [Z]     [K]     [x]     [G]     [h]
This also directly goes against natlang phonology, in which there are
fewer possible coda consonants than possible onset consonants, and in
which onsets tend to be stops and codas tend to be sonorants. If you're
trying to be deliberately strange, that's fine, but I thought I'd warn
you.


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