Re: Nasal oddities (again!)

At 21:20 18/02/00 -0300, you wrote:
>I'm trying to describe a language of a people consisting
>of different breeds of what I'd call orcs and trolls (not
>exactly after the Tolkien fashion, but to the only purpose
>of illustrating their evilness and general foulness) and
>I've found them rather uncooperative. There isn't a single
>linguist among them so as to consult, they have a dread for
>tape recorders, and my informants invariably attempt to kill
>me when they get tired. Moreover, the language is rather harsh,
>including ejectives and implosives all over, an excessive use
>of the pharyngeal fricative, and a series of sounds I definitely
>hear as implosive nasals...
>
Wow! what a dangerous conculture! :) Being killed by its own invented
people... That could make a rather strange story :) .

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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