Re: New H/G lang?

Nik Taylor wrote:

> "R. Nierse" wrote:
> > What about ejective nasals and sonorants and sibilants?
> > They cannot simply be ejective, because the airstream is still there, even
> > though they function that way in a phonology.
>
> It's perfectly possible to have /s'/, etc., ejective fricatives, and I
> suppose ejectives could be nasals or liquids and the like, but it would
> be hard to hear, methinks.
I'm not entirely sure about glottalic ejective nasals -- they'd almost
certainly have to be voiceless nasals, which are rare (read "exotic")
enough as is.  But speaking of ejectives in general, it's certainly true that
quite a few languages which have glottalic consonants have glottalic
affricates (e.g., Quechua does, and there's a cluster of languages in
central California -- Lake Miwok, Hill Patwin, Wappo, Eastern Pomo --
which have them as a diffusional feature).

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