Re: Nonpulmonic conlang?

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:41 AM, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> I've had a nonpulmonic conlang in the works since forever. Mostly because I
> don't want to rush it. This was inspired by being irritated at the trope of
> disembodied heads "talking" in various types of fiction, when they clearly
> should have no bisnes doing so without functioning lungs.
>
> All the basic sounds are clicks, and contrast two or three (undecided)
> degrees of rounding:
Any chance you could put up a video (youtube?) of your phonemic
inventory for my phonetically-inept understanding? Maybe some words?
(Or whatever passes for something wordish - I imagine that without
syllable-nuclei segmentation becomes harder.)

Re beatboxing: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_burchfield_plays_invisible_turntables.html

He uses a lot of pulmonics, but I don't know how he's doing some of
it. May be minable.

- Sai