Questions tagged [ejectives]
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Why are voiced ejectives impossible?
Sounds made using the glottalic egressive airstream mechanism (one of the six main airstream mechanisms, and also of the four that are actually phonemic in natural human languages) are known as ...
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Amharic Emphatics vs Arabic pharyngeals
I grew up speaking Arabic, and I am very comfortable with sounds like ص,ط,ض, etc.
However, I was looking at Amharic out of curiosity, and noticed that in place of these pharyngeals, Amharic has ...
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What is Proto-Semitic *x̣?
In his Akkadian grammar (specifically the appendix on phonology), Huehnergard lists the following Proto-Semitic consonants:
Most of this looks familiar to me. However, *x̣ caught me by surprise; I'm ...
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Have ejective consonants ever arisen on their own?
In an old comment on another question, jlawler mentions in passing:
Much the same can be said about ejective consonants -- other languages can pick them up, but nobody knows where they come from. ...
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Good audio resources for the ejective consonants
I think I understand the ejective consonants, but even after listening to the Wikipedia audio clips, I am not sure I would be able to distinguish them from the corresponding "regular" consonant, like ...
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What is the difference between velar and ejective stops?
What is the difference between the velar stop [kʰ] and the ejective [k̛ ]? And how are they pronounced?
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What is the difference between an ejective consonant and a sequence of consonant + glottal stop?
Is it just the simultaneousness?
Also - can a sequence of say uvular stop and glottal stop become - diachronically - an uvular ejective?
Thanks :))
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How do we know that Ancient Greek didn't have ejectives?
Ancient Greek had a three way contrast between voiced, unvoiced, and aspirated stops. It seems to be assumed that the unvoiced stops were pulmonic, but how do we know this?
A fact that may or may not ...
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Are there languages with contrasting unvoiced aspirated, unaspirated, and ejective stops?
In English there are just two series of stops, voiced (b, d, g) and unvoiced (p, t, k). The latter are generally aspirated (though it depends on phonological context).
In many common languages of ...
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Can you give me some tips on how to pronounce ejective consonants?
I'll be going back to the Republic of Georgia pretty soon and will try to learn the famously difficult language but last time I was there I couldn't distinguish or reproduce the ejectives.
Everybody ...
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