Re: Xhosa?
| From: | Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 10:44 |
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>From: Colin Halverson <CHalvrson@...>
>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:48:37 EDT
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>It's me yet again. No answers but a tonne of questions-
>I was wondering if anyone knows how many/which letters stand for/how to say
>the clicks or clucks of Xhosa (or any other language for that matter). Is
>there an IPA or whatever for these kind of sounds? Does anyone have a
>conlang that involves clicks/clucks?
Clucks? Are you working on chicken language??? LOL I can't answer your
Xhosa question, but I do know IPA has symbols for the clicks. Zulu uses x,c
and q for its clicks, in combination with g and n, IIRC to represent voicing
and nasality.
The lang I mentioned in another post a few minutes ago, q~'u^pl!, used
clicks extensively. All final consonants in roots were clicks or click-like
sounds. All initial consonants in roots were trills. Affixes muddied the
waters.
Adam
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