Re: New H/G lang?

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> 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.
Voiceless laterals of any sort (as opposed to voiceless lateral *fricatives*)
are rather rare anyway, because they are hard to hear.  Ejective nasals
as such are impossible, because the closure point is upstream of the
oral-nasal connection, but nothing prevents nasalized ejectives, where
the pulmonic airstream comes out the nose while the velar closure generates
the ejective.  I don't know if these are attested, though.

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