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Re: Frankenlangs

From:bob thornton <arcanesock@...>
Date:Sunday, September 5, 2004, 21:09

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 ) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

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