Re: Implosives

Tim May said:
> Mark P. Line wrote at 2004-05-03 20:36:17 (-0500)
>  > Trebor Jung said:
>  > > Just wondering, are there any other implosive-type consonants than
>  > > bilabial
>  > > [b_<], alveolar [d_<], palatal [J\_<], velar [g_<], and uvular
> [G\_<]?
>  > > Maybe
>  > > infricatives?
>  >
>  > Implosives have stop stricture, so "infricatives" wouldn't be
>  > implosives.  The five you name (the second one is actually
>  > dental/alveolar) are the five listed as possible implosives in the
>  > IPA. I think I've encountered a glottal implosive as a speech sound
>  > somewhere.
>
> ...
>
> Implosives are produced by glottal suction, aren't they?
Yep.


> So shouldn't
> a glottal implosive be impossible (as should a glottal ejective)?  You
> can't decompress the space between the glottis and itself.
You're right. It'd have to be a pulmonic ingressive i.e. inhaled version
of the usual glottal stop), not an implosive (which is a glottalic
ingressive, as you point out).


-- Mark