Re: Introducing myself to the list

>From: "Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...>
>Danny Wier wrote:
>
> > Spirant: f' f v (first an ejective fricative)
>
> > Nasal: m' mh m (first an implosive nasal; second a voiceless/aspirated
> > nasal)
>
>Did you get those glottalized fricatives and nasals from a real natlang?
>I don't think I've ever heard of any like that (FWIW).
Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages, along with some variant
pronunciations of Georgian, have uvular ejective fricatives, and Korean has
<ss> which is described as 'tense' (sounds like a glottalized consonant to
me).

The implosive nasal is not much different than a prenasalized voiced stop,
found in Niger-Kordofanian languages.  Voiced stops can be implosive or
'normal'; they are often written as <d> and <dh>, which is used for Swahili,
or was it Zulu or Xhosa?

Voiceless nasals can be found in numerous languages, from Welsh to Cherokee.

Daniel A. Wier  ¶¦¬þ
Lufkin, Texas USA
http://communities.msn.com/DannysDoubleWideontheWeb

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