Re: Xhosa?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:37:13 -0500, Paul Roser <pkroser@...> wrote:

>I believe that your (sketch?) language Neyasai also has clicks
>(and whistles!) - several years back you had kindly posted the
>phoneme inventory for Nikta (and a large and impressive sets of
>sounds it was!) and I was hoping you might post as much of the
>phoneme inventories for Neyasai and Qiira Triicha as you can recall.
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).

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

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