What Is a Minimum Pair?

After a discussion of George’s recent consumption of bear meat, we get to talking about designing your sound system, a topic we meant to talk about in episode 29 but somehow didn’t end up saying much about.  After a long discussion about that topic, we feature perhaps the second most famous auxlang in history, which goes by the terrible name of Volapük.

Top of Show Greeting: Quenya (translation by Roman Rausch)

Links and Resources:

• WALS on the velar nasal
• Arapaho (Wikipedia)
• WALS on gaps in plosive systems
• A Survey of Some Vowel Systems
• WALS on consonant inventories

Featured Conlang: Volapük (“Handbook”, Wikipedia, Volapük.com)