Thursday, July 13, 2006

other clicks

For those who are dying to know (maybe Kim would want to know?) the clicks are signified by these letters:

By the way, these sound quite different from each other.


q already described in previous post
c tongue at front of teeth, like "tsk" except you suck backwards instead of forwards
x tongue to the side of your mouth

qh aspirated
ch
xh

nq nasalized
nc
nx

gq voiced
gc
gx

ngq nasalized AND voiced
ngc
ngx

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