Re: Lake, underwater version

> I just thought of something. Underwater the Lake people could
> speak a
> language that involves nothing but non-pulmonic sounds: ejectives and
> implosives, as well as clicks. Or buccal speech. Just anything
> that allows
> the glottis to seal off the lungs underwater.
Actually, I'd thought of doing something similar for a sentient water-
dwelling species (not amphibious, water only). I was going to have the
mouth be used for eating and speech, the gills for breathing, so all
the sounds would have to be non-pulmonic. Was only toying with this
idea, though; hadn't really sat down and done anything with it, mainly
because I'm lately focusing on Really Interesting Scripts, and it would
be hard to have anything more interesting than "one sound = one
phoneme" with that sort of language.