
Conlangery #48: Designing a Sound System
Conlangery Podcast
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Klingon, Is It Asymmetrical?
There are a bunch of languages of California that make a distinction between alveolar and retroflex. The further north you go, the fewer of those retroflexes you'll have. Muxon has a normal inventory except one single retroflex stop, which is an aerial feature. And frankly, I think that was the inspiration for that weirdness of Klingon since Okrin knows about those languages. So it may be actually, Klingon actually has another retroflex, it has a shh sound. Right, so it has to go. But yeah, it's interesting to see that that does occur now if it could only figure out which Klingons ended up living in California for a few thousand
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