Re: Bat Sounds/Phonology Redux

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:32:53 -0400, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

>My Nikta language (where "Nikta" is the English mangling of [N_!et_>a])
Is that <nasalized alveolar click>/e/<ejective alveolar stop>/a/ ?
So Nikta self-designation something like /nt!et'a/ ?

>has a series of clicks including bilabial, dental, alveolar, retroflex,
>palatal, and velar. (Well, the velar "click" might really be a voiceless
>implosive, but the Nikta aren't human, so it's possible they can pronounce
>some sounds that are difficult or impossible for humans.)
I think at one point you had described the velar click as a postpalatal (a
sort of very retracted palatal click), though the human substitution of a
voiceless velar implosive for something that cannot easily be produced by a
human is also a good explanation/approximation.

Bfowol

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