Re: THEORY: clicks

Ray wrote:

>>A friend of mine has done fieldwork with the Hatsa and
>>he reported that they have plain, ejective, aspirated,
>>nasalised and nasalised+ejective clicks.
>
>Interesting. I knew of plain, aspirated, nasalized and,
>indeed, voiced(but not nasalized) clicks - they have them
>all in the Nguni langs ofsouthern Africa.
>But ejective & nasalized-ejective clicks?
>
>But ejectives are produced by closing the glottis and using
>glottalic airstream;the airstream can, of course, receive similar
>modifiying aspulmonic airstream passing through the mouth.
>But how do ejective clickswork? (I'm _not_ saying they're
>not possible - I'm genuinely curious).
>Is there simultaneous closure of the glottis and the velar region
>with a release of both and modification of the resultant airstream
>being made witheither the lips or the foreparts of the tongue.
Yesterday I spoke with Alex de Voogt, who did fieldwork with
the Hatsa and I have to correct some of the thins I wrote earlier.
he said that the clicks are not *ejective*, but *glottalized*.

That makes it very much easier to pronounce, isn't it?

Rob

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