Re: CHAT: Glottalized consonants
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 15, 1999, 16:32 |
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Herman Miller wrote:
> Of my languages, the Nikta language has q' k' ts' t' and tt' (dental t)=
. It
> also has a bunch of clicks.
A later stage of W. has implosives, developed from geminate voiced
stops. That is, /dd/ becomes /d`/. This stage also has aspirated
stops, developed from geminate voiceless stops, so that /tt/ becomes
/t_h/, thus a four-way contrast between /t_h/, /t/, /d/, /d`/. The
implosives may have ejective allophones, which is not uncommon among
langs with glottalic consonants.
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