Re: Introducing myself to the list

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:59:40 CDT, Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:

>>From: "Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...>
<...>
>Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages, along with some variant
>pronunciations of Georgian, have uvular ejective fricatives,
Can you provide an example from Amharic? I don't remember uvular
ejective _fricatives_ in Amharic... on the other hand, uvular stops
tend to be actually affricates....

>and Korean has
><ss> which is described as 'tense' (sounds like a glottalized consonant to
>me).
No, the term 'tense' is normally applied to a different feature.
Moreover, there are languages (in Dagestan) opposing 'tense ejectives'
to 'lax ejectives'.

>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?
What do you call 'implosive'? Do you mean 'preglottalized'? If so,
preglottalized nasals exist in languages of SE Asia (don't remember
which specifically). They have nothing to do with prenasalized stops,
but resemble preglottalized voiced stops.

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

BTW, there are *voiced* aspirated nasals (e. g. in Indo-Aryan langs).
I think they would look typologically more natural than voiceless in
a lang already having voiced aspirates in its inventory.


Basilius