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Re: THEORY: clicks

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Monday, March 24, 2003, 6:13
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
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> 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

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