Re: THEORY: clicks
| From: | Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 23, 2003, 20:14 |
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Joe wrote:
>/q_</ sounds vaguely click-like. However, it hurts to say it.
The SAMPA chart I'm looking at gives _< as the symbol for "voiced
implosive". I can pronounce q_> ("uvular ejective"), which I think would
mean "start to make a q , let the pressure build up behind the uvula and
then let it 'pop' out." The result is very click-like, but it tickles the
gag reflex. 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.
M
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