Re: Sounds in Conlangs

bob thornton wrote:

> --- 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.
No, thats the uvula.  The epiglottis is the "lid"
which closes of your windpipe so that food doesn't
go down there.

Uvular sounds, BTW are rather common, especially
the fricatives.

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