trQal

(To Patrick Dunn)

Pat, I have some suggestions for Trollish that are radical enough that th=
ey'd
probably be too much of a pain in the ass to implement -- it's a matter o=
f
reworking the phonological system from the ground up.  But I present them=
 for
your amusement.

You had a post-velar point of articulation that you got into trouble by
calling "glottal" and putting voiced and voiceless stops and fricatives t=
here.
 You ended up changing that to "eructative," which works OK, but I sugges=
t
just making them "uvular" or "pharyngeal" or some combination thereof and=

saving the "eructatives" for something else...

Make "eructative/pulmonic" a vowel distinction.  Give every vowel (or som=
e of
them) and eructative counterpart.  This could be simulated by humans by u=
sing
creaky voice (sounds vaguely like a burp!), and you could use the creaky =
voice
symbol as a diacritic (a tilde underneath the vowel -- in the various
IPA/ASCII representations this shows up as ~  ;~ or _k).  Or you could ma=
ke up
your own diacritic that works for you, since TrQal doesn't quite use stan=
dard
IPA/ASCII representations anyway.

Oh, and maybe you could throw in a little-used phoneme, the "gnash," whic=
h is
produced by striking or grinding the fangs together?  Perhaps it shows up=
 in
certain threatening interjections....

Just some ideas. :)

Ed


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