Re: CHAT: Glottalized consonants

On Fri, 14 May 1999 12:48:50 PDT, Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:

>Anyway, I happen to be somehow fascinated with glottalized consonants =
(and
>other sounds that tickle your throat).  Pertaining to conlangs, somebody
>mentioned Vulcan (I know tlhIngan Hol doesn't have ejectives).  Two of =
my
>conlang projects have them: Tech and Callistic.  Tech has a six-way stop
>system: voiceless and voiced plain, voiceless and voiced aspirate, =
voiceless
>ejective and voiced implosive, which result from fortition and lenition
>distinction of the Nostratic three-way stops/affricates.  (I'm still =
working
>on the system; I can't seem to get it right -- maybe this is OCD ;)
Of my languages, the Nikta language has q' k' ts' t' and tt' (dental t). =
It
also has a bunch of clicks. Cispa has t' c' k' (c =3D [tS]). An ancient
Zireen language, T=E9nai, has t' c' k' (c =3D [c]). Oddly, none of these
languages have voiced stops!

I'm sure there must be some lang-sketch or doodle of mine that has a
three-way voiced/voiceless/glottalized contrast, but I can't think of one
off the top of my head. Of course, at the time I started putting =
ejectives
in my languages, I didn't know anything about actual human languages that
used those sounds.

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