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Re: Click consonants

From:Eddy Ohlms <etg@...>
Date:Saturday, December 13, 2003, 5:25
> Magzhelyagon speakers are human, but Huna is a slightly differs in many > details from Earth. I'm beginning to entertain the idea that Huna's > language universals are slightly different from ours - it would certainly > explain why Khangaþyagon, the ultimate ancestral language of Huna, breaks > so many of our universals. > > I arrived at Magzhelyagon's clicks by experimentation - I tried making > clicks to see what I could come up with. I haven't worked out how they fit > into connected speech yet. > > By the way, can you explain a bit more about click accompaniments? It will > be useful for me when I come to develop Magzhelyagon further.
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/appendix/languages/zhu/zhu.html That page illustrates click accompaniments quite well.