Re: Lakhota, was Re: Betreft: Re: Jaars IPA Helper

Rob Nierse wrote:

>BTW, is anyone familiar with Lakhota? I have a book that states that
>Lakhota uses five (!) states of the glottis:
>plain, ejective, aspirated, voiced and unvoiced.
>Is that true? Are there more languages that have so many
>distinctions? Or more?
Yes.  Sindhi has five: voiceless, voiceless aspirate, voiced, voiced
aspirate and voiced implosive.

Quite a few African languages have five or even all six, for instance Igbo:

          voiceless voiced
plain        X         X
aspirate     X         X <-- 'breathy'?
ejective     X         X <-- implosive or 'creaky'?

Ouch.

Danny
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