Re: Phonology: click question

>It's me again. We've been really busy, getting floyded...er,
>FLOODED...by hurricane Floyd and then moving, so I haven't been
>around much, but I am back now and I have a question.
Welcome back to the rumpus room, Mia!

>One feature that I have been thinking about is a nasalized click
>that will come only immediately before a nasalized vowel. The
>click I have in mind is  made with the tongue flat on the palate,
>a sort of middle of the mouth sound. Would that be called a
>"palatal click" or is that way too obvious, and it is really
>called something else? What about a click made with the tip of
>the tongue in the same spot? I like that too.
If the click is made with the body of the tongue touching the
palate, then it's a palatal click.  End of story.  If it's made
with the tip of the tongue, then it's probably a retroflex
click.

So, do you have another language in the works, then?

Matt.