Talk:Srngadz

The phonology with the /ɑ/ doesn't make much sense... It's not a breathy voiced or voiceless vowel. Joersc (talk) 00:14, December 14, 2015 (UTC)

I suppose the idea was that each vowel letter could represent a semivowel as well. With /i/ and /j/ as well as /u/ and /w/ (or their unrounded equivilents) it should be pretty intuitive. I kind of had to bend the rules a bit with /a/ and /h/. That said it seems to be in line with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel#Classification "The pharyngeal approximant [ʕ̞] is also equivalent to the semivowel articulation of the open back unrounded vowel [ɑ̯]." Also, this is my first time responding to a wiki talk page. Let me know if I did it right. Srngadz (talk) 00:46, December 14, 2015 (UTC)

Well, a voiced pharyngeal approximant is not a voiceless glottal approximant at all... Joersc (talk) 00:55, December 14, 2015 (UTC)

True, I realize that. Up to this point I had pretty much accepted that it wasn't 100% logical. That said, now that you mention it I might change the [h] to something like a  [ʕ̞] to make it make more sense. Srngadz (talk) 00:59, December 14, 2015 (UTC)