Re: THEORY: clicks

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.

Cheers,
Eamon
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