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Conlangery #129: Non-Vocal Languages

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The Importance of Aliphony in English

Some people feel like it matters, but... Yeah. I know that there's actually an interesting analog to that. We know in English that make and meck are totally different words. And yet, the choice of them isn't as important in something like negative and negative or Megan and Megan. See the same kind of thing happening with ASL,. where there are certain distinctions that are very, very important to distinguish Lexims. But then in other circumstances, it's actually not important, and it's kind of the same thing. You also, of course, see aliphony happening. This is kind of hard to explain, but if you take your flat hands and you run them down

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