bob thornton wrote:
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>
> */Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>/* wrote:
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> >bob thornton wrote:
> >>
> >> g (velar click, no IPA symbol)
>
> >I think there's no IPA symbol because it's anatomically impossible.
> >Clicks are velaric ingressives, formed by stopping airflow at the
> place
> >of articulation and the velum, pulling the tongue root back to
> create a
> >vacuum between them, and then releasing the stop. You can't have a
> >velaric ingressive velar stop — there would be no "between".
>
> Then what the deuce kind of noise am I making? It's on the same
> place of articulation as G... (XSAMPA g )
Probably an implosive (glottalic ingressive).