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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.

~Danny~

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