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Moving this off the Xorban Dev thread because this is a side decussion.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:
FWIW, Livagian has 21 unaccented consonants, 4 accented consonants, 7 unaccented vowels and 8 accented vowels -- 21 consonants and 7 vowels if you take only the unaccented. So that gives a sense of where I strike the balance.
That's not too elaborate. If you had accented consonants, then I assume that syllables had two mora, so you probably had long vowels too. Correct?
Other than throwaway sketches, the most elaborate phonology I ever tinkered with had of all things a largely Latinate a_posteriori lexicon. The three series of plosives allowed me to practice my VOTs. That would be 21 consonants and 8 vowels if you count the aspirated plosives (which I formally analyzed as /p t k/ + /h/). The vowels took high or low pitch; low pitch marked the end of a word. I had worked out the orthography and phonotactics with some care, so that the spelling would approximate the original Latin yet be entirely predictable from the phonological forms and vice versa. It was pronounced somewhat like Italian. Words were self-segregating. I had an endless supply of predicates which I mainly took from Interlingua.