Re: Ng'and'ana

>On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:28:44 -0800 Elliott Belser <renyard@...>
>writes:
>  > The consonants, like in Hebrew, can sometimes be modified by a dot.
>Is this 'gutturalization' marked by the Adam dot a phonological process,
>like spirantization is in Hebrew and Spanish, or is it just an
>orthographic way of writing the different letters, like how the letter
>"R" is a "P" with a leg, but there's no real connection between their
>sounds?
It's phonological.  The Ng'anda concider a rolled R a 'crystalline'
R, a Q or KH a 'crystalline' K, and so forth and this is how their
linguists interpret it.  The sounds are related, it's not just
representational.