Jul 20
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
I suppose palatalisation isn't a phoneme by itself, so if I have to chose an actual single phoneme, then /ʎ/. I know it's not technically phonemic in Frisian, but the word ljocht /ljoxt/ "light" is my 'cellar door' I just think it's so beautiful
if you've seen my header image, you might've expected the answer to be /ʕ/. but that's in there because of how it was described in E.D. Reymond’s Introductory Lessons in Aramaic ; a truly magnificent (non-)description of a phoneme which has lived in my head rent free since I read it over a decade ago :
