Re: Click consonants
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 20:01 |
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On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 03:31 AM, Herman Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:46:44 -0600, Eddy Ohlms <etg@...>
> wrote:
[snip]
>> No, if your language distinguishes voicing, the clicks should
>> distinguish voicing. If
>> there is aspiration, clicks vary there, too. The click distinctions
>> usually parallel
>> the distinctions in the rest of the language.
That's certainly what I've found in the click languages I've come across.
> Then if your language _doesn't_ distinguish voicing, the clicks shouldn't
> distinguish voicing either.
'twould appear so.
But what happens in a conlang is up to its author. It depends if, a la
Tolkien,
you're trying to create a conlang that could be a natlang, or if you're
trying
to create something novel, e.g. a language of clicks and whistles (nice
idea :)
Ray
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