Re: Hello All!!

From: "william drewery" <will65610@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Hello All!!


> WOW, man, an "ejective pharyngeal fricative"!! Is it
> like a glottal stop with pharyngeal constriction? I'm
> trying to make the sound and think I'm close.
>     Here is a link with a native speaker of Agul
> pronouncing the
>
sounds:http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonan
ts/appendix/languages/agul/agul.html

Ah, I've seen this website before! I'd like to see what Agul epiglottals
correspond to in other NE Caucasian languages. (JOIN THE IPA!!)

>     There is also a site using laryngeoscopic studies
> of epiglottal articulations, but I can't get the sound
> files to
> work:http://web.uvic.ca/ling/research/phonetics/jipa26.htm
I got 404's too. Oy vey.

>    I've had a lot of trouble trying to find any real
> info on Agul or other Causasian languages, with the
> exception of Georgian. What I have found implies that
> most of these languages are endangered and
> understudied. Everytime I look for languages with
> epiglottals, all I come up with is a million and one
> links to alternative IPA charts. I'm guessing these
> sounds are about as rare as implosive glottal stops,
> which I heard are found in only three African
> languages.
Implosive glottal stops? There's not even an IPA symbol for that. I'm trying
it, and it's coming out more like a voluntary hiccough.

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