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.