Katav Danny Wier:
> From: "Mike Ellis" <nihilsum@...>
>
> > The SAMPA chart I'm looking at gives _< as the symbol for "voiced
> > implosive". I can pronounce q_> ("uvular ejective"),
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> > The sound isn't too odd (it might appear in a few natlangs for
> > all I know), but it could make alliterative poetry rather messy.
>
> It does appear in some natlangs, including Georgian and Quechua, and other
> languages of the Caucasus and Pacific Northwest. Something like it might
be
> in Klingon as well, or at least the affricate /qX/.
Hehe. Ideas are hanging in the air. I've just introduced /q_>/ (together
with /t_>/, /ts_>/ and /tS_>/) into my newest project CLP04 (provisional
name - L'sanu). But maybe in case of /q_>/ I'd make a choice in favor of
plain /k_>/. They originate from Proto-Semitic emphatic consonants.
Yitzik