Re: New H/G lang?

"R. Nierse" wrote:

> > Ed Heil wrote:
> > > I was under the impression that "Glottalic" and "Ejective" were two
> > > terms for the same phenomenon -- a consonant produced with glottalic
> > > egressive initiation.  What's the distinction?
> >
> > Ejective is a type of glottalic.  Glottalic means using glottalic
> > airstream, it also includes implosives, which are glottalic *ingressive*
>
> I used a different definition of glottalic.
> When I said glottalic I meant 'consonant followed by glottal stop'.
> I made this distinction because in Yucatec there is a minimal pair this
> way.
So, does this language have a phonemic glottal stop?  If so, wouldn't
it be better just to say it's a consonant cluster in which a glottal stop
is the second element in the cluster?  Besides, "glottalic" (as an adjective)
is already most often used in the literature to refer specifically to the
air stream mechanism, not the place of articulation ("glottal" is used for
that).

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