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Re: uvular click

From:Alex Fink <000024@...>
Date:Sunday, January 4, 2009, 7:01
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 00:35:34 -0600, Matthew Turnbull <ave.jor@...> wrote:

>has anyone ever heard of a language that uses a uvular click as a >phoneme, and not an allophone.
I assume you mean uvular accompaniment, not uvular click itself, which would seem impossible. In any case I didn't think they were that uncommon. Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant#Manners_of_articulation at least &#451;Xóõ and N&#448;uu and &#450;Hoan and G&amp;#448;ui have some, though I can't tell about the phonemic status from there.
>Also, and just as important, is there any international convention on >uvular click notation?
Sure, use a tiebar tying together a click symbol and a [q], or whatever the accompaniment is. Alex

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Matthew Turnbull <ave.jor@...>