Re: Sounds in Conlangs

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

> Quoting Tristan Mc Leay
> <conlang@...>:
>
> > I
> > don't _really_ know why the epiglottal sounds
> don't live in the table up
> > top, though.
>
> Admission time; I never understood what epiglottals
> were. Where are they
> pronounced, more exactly? What's the epiglottis?
>
>
> Andreas
>
The epiglottis is, for lack of a better term, the
dangly down thing in the back of your throat. Stoppers
up the nose so you can swallow properly.

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