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Re: New Semitic-based conlang



--- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "nathanielamentstone" 
<natcas@l...> wrote:
> 
> > q is a uvualr stop, right. So prepare your mouth for a /k/ sound 
> but 
> > move your tongue further back. Unfortunately when I do it I 
> get /q'/, 
> > that is, an uvular ejective.
> 
> THANK YOU! I thought it was some sort of "gulping /g/"!

I think that would be more of an implosive sound (which is basically 
the voiced counterpart to an ejective).