Re: Palatalized uvular stop

Outo wrote: "I have never seen a language which uses an (unvoiced)
palatalized  uvular stop. Is it possible to make this sound?"

Ubykh does; see here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubykh_language> . It has
some other pretty exotic sounds...

"I am planning on making a conlang which uses secondary articulations a lot,
and makes distinctions between plain, palatalized, aspirated, labialized and
pharyngealized / velarized consonants.

Wow. I'd like to see you post something about it :) Why not add an ejective
series, too? ;)

"I aksed a question quite recently about whether languages make a
distinction between plain consonant + palatal glide, and palatalized
consonant + palatal glide. I have been told that Russian does make this
distinction, but I'm still not convinced because it would be hard to make a
distinction like that, without the consonant becoming at least slightly
palatalized before the glide.

Yeah, I read that thread, and I'm not convinced, either.

"Also, can / does any language use aspirated fricatives (or any other
consonants)? I have only ever seen aspirated stops (like in hindi and
sanskrit).

AFAIK, yes, but they're quite rare in natlangs. Anyone know of any such
natlangs?

"Is it possible to make pharyngealized velara, namely [k] and [g]?"

Possibly. Ubykh has pharyngealized uvular consonants, but not pharyngealized
velar ones... Why?

I don't know how to pronounce pharyngeal(ized) consonants or vowels... Does
anyone have sound examples?

Cheers,

T

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