Re: velaric egressives?
| From: | Paul Roser <pkroser@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 17, 2003, 19:32 |
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:52:27 -0400, Estel Telcontar
<estel_telcontar@...> wrote:
>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.
The Australian ritual language Damin had a velaric egressive labial stop,
along with a glottalic egressive velar stop, nasalized velaric ingressive
stops (nasal clicks) at labial, dental and alveolar points of articulation,
a labial trill, and a pulmonic ingressive lateral fricative, alongside a
number of more standard phones. Sad to say, Damin is extinct, the last
speaker dying back in the late 60's or early 70's.
It has also been recently proposed that velaric egressive mechanisms might
occur in some of the Georgian harmonic clusters, which consist of a labial
or coronal and a dorsal closure, eg, /pk, bg, p'k', tk, dg, t'k', tsk, dzg,
ts'k'.../ etc.
Bfowol