Re: Tonal inflection?
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 29, 2008, 22:13 |
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I tried constructing a "maximal" phoneme inventory a while ago, too. I had a
few thousand non-click consonants defined before abandoning the thought.
The 144 labial stops, for example, were constructed as
{bilabial stop, labiodental affricate} * {plain, prenasalized} * {plain,
palatalized} * {plain, labialized} * {voiced, prevoiced, unvoiced} * {plain,
aspirated, glottalized}. A maximally horrendous example phoneme might be
/mbf_>_j_w/.
John Vertical