Re: Click consonants
| From: | Paul Roser <pkroser@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 15:58 |
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:08:53 +0000, Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
>Staving Eddy Ohlms:
>>Does anyone but me use click consonants in their conlangs? What clicks do
>>you use? What click accompaniments?
>
>Magzhelyagon is planned to have the following
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>Bilabial, labiodental, postdental (ie tongue behind closed teeth),
>postdental with bilabial postclosure (the same as the last but let the
>suction of the click pull your lips closed) alveolar, postalveolar, lateral
>and glottal.
The postdental with bilabial postclosure is an interesting twist, though
whatever you make at the glottal point of articulation won't technically be
a click - clicks by definition involve two closures: a dorsal closure
(velar or uvular) and an anterior closure (labial to palatal).
Bfowol
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