Re: Xhosa?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 1:46 |
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:48:37 EDT, Colin Halverson <CHalvrson@...>
wrote:
>It's me yet again. No answers but a tonne of questions-
>I was wondering if anyone knows how many/which letters stand for/how to say
>the clicks or clucks of Xhosa (or any other language for that matter). Is
>there an IPA or whatever for these kind of sounds? Does anyone have a
>conlang that involves clicks/clucks?
In Xhosa and Zulu, the click letters are <c>, <q>, and <x>: <c> is dental,
<q> is alveolar (or maybe retroflex?), and <x> is lateral. They may also be
aspirated, voiced, or nasalized, so you get combinations like the <xh> in
"Xhosa" (aspirated lateral click). I've used clicks in a couple of old
languages (really language sketches), Nikta (N!tet'ak'!tùl) and Qiira
Triicha (the <q> of "Qiira" is a low-pitched alveolar click, and the
language also has a higher-pitched alveolar click written <x>!).
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