Re: velaric egressives?

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:11:28 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...>
wrote:

>Estel Telcontar scripsit:
>> I've been learning about airstream mechanisms in phonetics class, and
>> apparently no natlangs use a velaric egressive airstream mechanism.
>> Does anyone out there have a conlang that does that?  Perfect
>> opportunity for some anadew-violator, it sounds like.
>
>I don't think there's any way for mere human ears to distinguish
>between velar egressives and ordinary glottal egressives.
The "tick" sound is noticeably different, since the velar egressives have a
smaller resonating space than the glottal egressives. Also, velar
egressives are likely to be pronounced with a separate velar release. I
tried several times to get a good velar egressive "t", and when I finally
got one that sounded reasonably good, I noticed that it had a very distinct
"k" sound after the "tick".

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/mp3/egressives.mp3

Like clicks, I find these sounds easier to produce with a simultaneous
nasal.