Re: new(?) phoneme discovered

>Today, while driving to work, I accidentally discovered a new phoneme.
>It appears to be possible to make a voiceless whistling sound between
>the glottis.
>
>Questions:
>- is anyone familiar with this sound?
The description sounds like something I've been pondering. The glottal
consonants can be interpreted as stand-alone phonation and nothing else,
right?
[h] = voiceless
[h\] = breathy voiced
[?] = glottal closure

I've thought of interpreting [@] as the voiced one... I think you may've hit
on the one corresponding with creaky or tense phonation?


>- is there an IPA symbol for it?
>- what other whistling phonemes exist in IPA?
>
>Thanks,
>René
Well, if it doesn't appear in the IPA chart, there isn't an IPA symbol for
it. But I assume you mean "is there any standard way of representing it?"
The extIPA chart has a diacritic for "whistled" (a combining subscript
upwards arrow) - you could use that with <h>.

Unicode also has a symbol titled "voiced laryngeal spirant" in the Phonetic
Extensions block; it _might_ be the same as this, but I don't really know.

John Vertical