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

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.


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