>===== Original Message From maurauser@hiaqimau.tk =====
>> 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.
>--
Yep this may be a sort of answer for you even though you're asking about
Natlangs. Because Ok lost it's clicks early in it's development also.
The alveolar click turned into T
and the uvular into K
-Duke