Quote Originally Posted by nelk114 View Post
Just out of interest (although it doesn't seem to be getting much in the way of votes), what would 'something esle entirely' entail?
Could be a few different things. For instance an even mix of stops and fricatives so that the language has a mix of chop and flow that doesn't neatly break down as one becoming the other. Or perhaps a slightly complicated relationship between them with lenition and fortition brought on by different circumstances like stress, emphasis, nearby words, adjacent phonemes from affixes, etc. Sandhi effects could be another way to shift between chop and flow. And there are other options as well.