Re: Nonpulmonic conlang?

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:42:26 -0500, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:

>Ray Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>I can imagine something like a Salishan (?) or other NW Coast
[...]
>>Ejective (i.e. glottalic egressive) consonants are normally stops, tho
>>ejective fricative are, I'm told, attested in some languages.
>
>And voiceless, of course.  I think some of the NW Coast languages have
>ejective [s'] and perhaps [x'] and maybe others (voiceless [l]-ejective??),
>if I recall my reading in the Boaz/Sapir et al analyses published way back
>in the early 20th C.
Tlingit has a full set of ejective stops/affricates and nearly full set of
ejective fricatives:
t' ts' tl' ch' k' kw' q' qw'
s' l' x' xw' X' Xw'
(there is no S' and l is a voiceless fricative - most dialects of Tlingit
lack a voiced approximant /l/).


-Bfowol