Re: Relative frequency of ejectives
| From: | Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 26, 2006, 18:08 |
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--- Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>
schrieb:
> >Implosive: b/ > d/ > g/
> >
> >(afraid I can't furnish any examples, implosives
> > being vanishingly rare)
> >
> >
> The hierarchy is right, but Implosives aren't that
> rare at all. They're quite common in certain areas
> of Africa, and in some areas of South East asia,
and
> some Amazonian languages have them, and... IIRC, an
> estimate 10% - 15% of languages has implosives, a
> similar percentage to the number of languages that
> have ejectives.
Really? I didn't know that. I guess just 'cause I
can't pronounce implosives, doesn't mean everyone else
can't, either, right? :)
How the heck do you form implosives, anyways? Are they
just pulmonic ingressives (= sucking in air, rather
than blowing it out), or what? I tried making them a
while ago, but couldn't manage to switch the direction
of airflow quickly enough to make it a reasonable
speech segment; I just figured I got the mechanism wrong.
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