Re: uvular click

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:26:06 -0600, Matthew Turnbull <ave.jor@...> wrote:

>no, I meant a uvular click, it's really not that hard to do, to test
>out sounds for conlangs I usually pick a MOA and "roll" it from front
>to back on the POAs, so I made a uvular click (which is just an
>ingressive uvular plosive right?),
Clicks are _velaric_ ingressives (or at least dorsal ingressives): that is,
their airflow is inward but into a low-pressure compartment formed by the
two points of contact of the tongue, the further back of which is dorsal.
You can't have a uvular click since there's no such point further back.
Your sound is probably a _glottalic_ ingressive uvular stop, much like a
voiceless version of an implosive.  That's generally written [G\_<_0] now,
but like the other voiceless glottalic ingressives it used to have its own
symbol [q_<], q with hooktop.  Unless yours is voiced; then it's just [G\_<].

>and all I can find is uvular
>accompanyment.
>I think that I am making it with epiglottal accompanyment, but am not sure.
If you are, that's purely extra; there's no reason glottalic ingressives
would need an accompaniment.

Alex

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