Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> wrote:
>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 )
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