Re: About Hebrew Emphatics

Danny wrote:

"What was your first? For me it was Georgian, which has p>, t>, ts>, tS>,
k>, k>w, q> and q>w (one dialect, or one in another Kartvelian language,
might also have a palatized version of ts>, but I don't know for sure).

I didn't know Georgian had labialized consonants... Do you mean Abkhaz?

"We had a native Korean speaker on the list years ago, and I can't remember
her name, but she said something about these being pronounced with glottal
tension but not ejectivity, and that these consonants may also be voiced.

How would those consonants be transcribed in X-SAMPA? Also, where does
Hausa's 'glottal y' come from, and how would it be transcribed? Do any other
languages have that sound?

"Cantonese and Taiwanese (as do Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese/On) keep the
old syllable-final stops, all lost in Mandarin; syllable-final /m/ is also
preserved, not converted to /n/ as in Mandarin."

What are Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean?

Trebor.
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