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On Fri, 31 May 2002 11:15, Danny Wier wrote:
> From: "Wesley Parish" <wes.parish@...>
>
> > Lake sounds interesting.  Does it include any clicks, a la dolphin
> > communications?  Any speech register difference between in-water speech
>
> abd
>
> > out-of-water speech?
>
> Jeez, I haven't really thought about that.... I guess in-water speech would
> involve sign language and making gestural clicks (like we'd tell a horse to
> "giddy-up", or say "tsk-tsk"). The conlang will involve the out-of-water
> speech. But note that the Lake people are like aquatic mammals, where they
> don't have gills or anything like that; they can't breathe underwater, but
> they sure can swim and dive!
>
> > I myself tried to think around that self-same problem with some names
> > belonging to an amphibious species I was creating in the same world as
> > Tan`ala and 'Erava, the world of Kero Siritse.  I suppose I compromised a
> > little with what little I got done - the Qhicing (q represented the
> > side-dental click (what _is_ _it_ _called_, the click from the molars on
> > either side?), with c representing the dental click and x the palatal
>
> click)
>
> > and their embassador Paqhahwa (h representing a whistle above water, a
>
> sudden
>
> > silence under water.)
>
> You took those features from the Nguni languages I take it? Anyway, the
> letters q, x and c can't function as clicks in Lake; they're already
> assigned to pulmonic egressive consonants.
I got a copy of the Teach Yourself Xhosa book, minus the tape (bummer,
bummer, and bummer again!!!).  It just seemed to make sense - I'd read that
book about communications between dolphins and man, by Dr. John Lillee, and
thought it would be appropriate.

Wesley Parish

P.S.  Anyone know of a good introductory book on any of the Bushman
languages?  A Bushman-influenced Bantu language isn't nearly as comprehensive
on clicks as I would like.

>
> ~Danny~
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