Re: THEORY: clicks

Zesh (Eamon Graham )| de, myálodaressedil <robertg@...> réd
2003.03.22. yúwaud e-qi miyiud 10:28:29 +1h:

> Here's a click related question: if a language loses clicks, what
> happens?  Do they become some other consonant, pulmonic or
> otherwise?
>
> Didn't Xhosa borrow clicks?  How would they turn existing Bantu
> consonants  in to clicks?
>
> The reason I'm curious is that for my Shparress project I intend to
> shoplift some vocabulary from African languages, and I'll need to
> turn the clicks in to something else.  I'm looking for a natural
> precedent to follow.
I don't really know, though AFMCLs, Long Wer lose its click in an early stage
of its development, with changes like

! > q [> k  ] in most dialects
| > tS > dZ

And they were lost at the beginning of the words.
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