Paul:
> the IPA (unwisely I feel) opted to adopt the Africanist symbols
> for the clicks.
I agree. The post-Kiel click symbols are horrible.
> I think in terms of allowing for possible but as yet undocumented
> sounds the IPA should have devised a diacritic indicating 'velaric
> ingressive' (or better, velaric ingressive AND velaric egressive)
> would have been a better solution, but....
How would this interesting-sounding scheme work, given that
(simplifying a bit) manner-variation in clicks occurs at the
dorsal/tectal point of occlusion, while there is place variation
in terms of the anterior point of occlusion?
--And.