Re: Nonpulmonic conlang?

It would be cool to see a phonetic inventory of  beatboxing sounds :)

Wikipedia already has < http://tinyurl.com/beatboxvocalstyle-pdf >

René

2008/11/19 Matthew Turnbull <ave.jor@...>:
> When I started considering a non-pulmonic conlang, the first thing that came
> to mind was, nothing! I already have a conlang that has ejectives, which I
> discovered before learning any theorie behind them, which lead to alot of
> confusion with clicks, but anyhow : you can have rounding contrastes with
> ejectives, for sure with k' because there are a few minimal pairs in my
> conlang.
> the one I can think of right now is tskriinukko vs tskriinukka (with a pen
> vs a pen).
>
> Also, I have a friend who beatboxes really well, and if anyone has every had
> the chance to hear good beatboxing, it involves alot of non-pulmonics, so
> when I imagine such a language, I imagine "words" that would be made up of a
> pattern of beats.
>
> some thing like tt-ts tststs-ka would mean one thing, tt-ts ttt-ts would
> mean another, it would sound a bit like a drum beat.
>
> so we could have some thing like
>
> *ttttsttttstttts tt-tt-tt-tts kkkko pp-ptpt |*
> would mean like "cat drink milk : I see" and tense could be stress and rythm
> based.
> cat drink milk EVEDENTIALITY-1SG
>
>
>
> this is very inefficient, but it's how beatboxing, which can be compleatly
> non-pulmonic sometimes, works, in fact, it could be that a non-pulnomic
> natlang exists somewhere amongst its beatboxers! :O
>