Re: Click consonants

Staving Paul Roser:
>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
> >
> >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).
So what do you call it if, with the mouth fully open and negative pressure
behind closed glottis, you open the glottis?

Pete