actually i think you'll find that one occurs in the southern german dialect küchenwaschbecknischcromulant wrote:At every POA, voiced and voiceless plosives, affricates and fricatives. No gaps.
Features found only in conlangs
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Re: Features found only in conlangs
Non-coronal affricates are indeed quite rare in the world's languages. German is one of the few languages that have /pf/ - and is currently losing it: teachers fight an uphill battle against that, saying things like Es heißt 'Pferd', nicht 'Ferd'. /kx/ does not occur in Standard German, but famously in some varieties of Swiss German (in other Swiss German dialects, it has become /x/; and in Standard German, the change /k/ > /kx/ that produced it in Swiss German simply never happened). However, some Caucasian languages are described as affricating their uvular stops.
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And German is sometimes analyzed as having no affricates at all.
Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
Re: Features found only in conlangs
This appears to be pretty common in languages with uvulars, actually, as was discussed earlier in this very thread. Likewise, /c/ seems to commonly surface as [cç] in many languages, though I'm not sure if that counts since <c> is sometimes used to represent a coronal consonant.WeepingElf wrote:However, some Caucasian languages are described as affricating their uvular stops.