Pharyngeal glides (was: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Dipht...)

> > And now for a new sub-topic. Do any languages have overtly pharyngeal
> > glides? That is, akin to the vocalization of German final /R/ (which
>could
> > be seen as a uvular glide), are there languages where there would be
>reason
> > to analyze /?\/ rather than non-syllabic /a/ or /A/??
>
>Classical Klaish, a conlang of mine, has a phoneme that is realized as [h\]
>or
>[?\] and corresponds to /a/ as /j/ to /i/ and /w/ to /u/.
>
>It mostly goes to zero in descendant langs, but >[h] initially in Telenian
>and
>Searixina.
>
>                                          Andreas
Excellent! Do these semivowels also happen act glide-like? ie. can they eg.
cluster more freely than other consonants, while messing up vowel evolution?

John Vertical

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