Re: More wierd phonemes

Daniel Wier wrote:

>You could also have a bidental click, but be careful or you'll chip a tooth.
If you mean banging the teeth together, then that is not a click. Clicks
have an airstream mechanism -- velaric to be precise. When I try to use
a velaric airstream against a bidental closure, I don't get much 'click'.
In fact, I can hardly hear anything at all! I think the closure has to be
a whole lot more firmer for the click to be heard when using a velaric
airstream. A bidental closure isn't closed enough IMO.

But if you want an unusual click sound, what about a linguolabial click.
Like any other click, you can combine this with the manner of release of
the velaric closure to get a whole mob of unusual click sounds. I don't
even think that linguolabial clicks are attested in natlangs. This doesn't
they can't occur in natlangs. Its just that linguolabial sounds are really
rare, and so are click sounds. So if you combine the two together then you
get rarer than rare!

-kristian- 8)