Re: Proto-Indo-European, glottalic theory and consonant inventories.

Hi!

Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> writes:
> Emaelivpeith Henrik Theiling:
> > My favorite is [qT].  I heard it in [T&m&ziXT] (Tamaziqt), spoken by a
> > man I once lived in the same house with.  One word was [T&fqvOqT].
>
> Oo, I like [qT]. (My friend sitting next to me while I was pronouncing
> "[qT qT qT]" gave me a very strange look and annouced that he did not
> know what to say, but I still like [qT].)
Hehe, seems to be a typical situation for conlangers.  I was once told
to shut up after a party when I had to sleep in a room together with
some other guests and silently(!) practised pharyngeals...

Btw, the [qT] is one of the three clusters of an 'anti-symmetric'
group of stop + fricative in Qthyn|gai: [tX], [ks], [qT].

> That reminds me, I still need to go pronounce what I trascribe as
> [ml~)] (Asha'ille |ml|) to my linguistics professor, to she if she
> has a better IPA transcription suggestion...
I don't know whether I know how to pronounce that -- I want to
pronounce m and l~ at the same time, but it does not work since my
mouth is shut.  So it becomes a sequence I would write [ml~] or even
simply [ml], since the nasalisation seems so natural after [m].  Hmm.

**Henrik

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