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Re: Thagojian phonology (was Re: oh no, not Tech phonology again)

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Friday, February 25, 2000, 3:50
Daniel A. Wier <dawier@...> wrote:

>Remember that a clicks are not glottal in origin; they are velar. Though >you could have an ejective click (double closure at the velum and the >glottis; that takes A LOT of practice).
Really? I'm almost sure I just made one. Weirdly, ejective stops are terribly difficult to get right, for me.
>By the way, your prenasalized voiced stop/affricate corresponds to Tech's >nasalized ejective stop/affricate; it could almost be described as an >implosive nasal -- someone on the list has these too; who was it again?
Me, me! My new project, G'amah, has a series of implosive nasals (/m` n` n^` N`/). They sound quite stoppish to me, like those nasalized voiced stops we were discussing (so /m`/ is more like /b~`/, etc.). Not quite like nasalized *ejectives* -- which I tried first. --Pablo Flores http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html