Re: Click consonants

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:10:02 -0800, paul-bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:

>On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:44:35  0000 Peter Bleackley
><Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote.
>>So what do you call it if, with the mouth fully open and negative pressure
>>behind closed glottis, you open the glottis?
>
>Negative pressure behind the glottis? You breathe in slightly to make that
>reduced pressure, right? Thus, a pulmonic ingressive?
>
>When I try to do it, it sounds more like a pulmonic ingressive /?h/. I have
>a *real* tough time using it in connected speech.
It sounds like Peter is describing an ingressive glottal stop, but if it
has any sort of distinctive pooping sound associated with it, I'm going to
guess that it's some sort of pulmonic or glottalic ingressive (voiceless)
epiglottal stop, and is actually involving the pharyngeal / epiglottal /
ventricular structures immediately above the glottis.

>
>FWIW, only one language in the world has a pulmonic ingressive, and it's
>Australian. I forget the name of the lang (|diwal|, maybe?) but the sound
>is a lateral.
That would be Damin, the extinct ritual language of the Lardil of
Mornington Island, and a truly inventive piece of work: it included a set
of nasalized (velaric ingressive) clicks, a glottalic egressive (ejective)
velar stop, a velaric egressive labial stop, a bilabial trill, and a
pulmonic ingressive lateral fricative, as well as a number of normal
pulmonic egressive consonants - the largest number of differing production
mechanism in any recorded language. All it lacked was glottalic ingressive
(implosive) stops.

Bfowol