Re: CHAT: Glottalized consonants

Kristian Jensen wrote (in response to me):

>I noticed that the glottalized consonants that people talk about are
>all oral stops. But there are other kinds of consonants that can be
>glottalized. Danny brought forward an excellent example of a group
>of languages that have glottalized consonants other than oral stops.
>Salishan languages do indeed have plenty of those. Including nasals
>and approximants. But these nasals and approximants are more better
>described as creaky voiced where the creakiness is strong enough to
>include a superimposed glottal stop.
>
>Any conlangs with such sounds? Boreanesian comes close. Especially
>the syllable final consonants with a stiff register tone or
>phonation.
>in syllable initial position, they appear randomly as allophones -
>especially in word initial position.
Tech does (or will).  A voiceless ejective stop (let's use <t'>) when normal
(fortis) becomes a voiced implosive with lenition (d'), an ejective
fricative with aspiration (T'), and an implosive nasal when nasalized (n').
As you see, Tech has the four mutation types as Welsh.

This "implosive nasal", however, is usually realized as a prenasalized
voiced implosive, thus <nd'>.  That's a lot easier to pronounce anyway.

Vowels and sonants (nasals and glides) do have "creaky" (and a "breathy")
allophones when between glottalics (or aspirates).

Danny


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