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Re: egressive clicks (was: Re: New H/G lang?)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, January 29, 2000, 19:52
And Rosta scripsit:

> Donald Duck imitators.
When I imitate D.D., I primarily do so with ultra-creaky voice and strong nasalization, not egressive clicks.
> Raspberry blowers.
There are two forms of raspberry: I asuppose you are referring to the bilabial variety, which is clearly a velar egressive. In my household, however, the sublingual/interlabial variety is standard, and I *think* (it's hard to be sure) that this involves glottalic rather than velar closure. (My family is giving me weird looks as I Bronx-cheer the computer screen.) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin