Re: Xhosa?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:07:46 Herman Miller wrote:

> Ah, I forgot about the Neyasai language. It has four whistles
> (two voiceless and two voiced), three clicks (! alveolar / dental
> @ bilabial), a unique "double click" (a combination of a click
> with a percussive sound made with the tip of the tongue), and the
> corresponding nasalized clicks. It also has ejectives k' and s',
> a handful of "normal" consonants (k j s r n) and three vowels (a e
i).

Then it has a much smaller inventory than I had imagined, though
I gather that /j/ might alter articulation of a preceding /k s k' s'/
to something like [c S s' S'] ? Am I correct in recalling that the
Neyasai name for their language was something like <Xa$qin?ai> or was
that a different language?

> Qiira Triicha has the two alveolar clicks <x> and <q>,
> aspirated <xh> and <qh>, nasalized <nx> and <nq>, and a bunch
> of other consonants:
>
>                       alveolar palatal  velar   glottal
>  unaspirated stops    t        c        k       ?
>  aspirated stops      th       ch       kh
>  fricatives           s  z     sh zh
>  nasals                  n        nh       ng
>  lateral                 l
>
>  Vowels: short       a  e  i  o  u (actually /M/)
>          long        aa    ii    uu
>          diphthongs  ai          ui
What does <r> in Qii<r>a T<r>iicha represent?

Regards,
Bfowol

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