Re: Sounds in Conlangs

--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> 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.
>
Oh blast. I've been pronouncing them quite wrong, in
that case. Thank you for the information.

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