Re: Click letters in ISO 639-3 and Registry (long)

Clicks, by definition, are articulated with a closed glottis, but with the tongue or lips as the source of air movement. Ejectives are articulated by a closed glottis as the source of air movement.

But what characters are used to write a sound is a matter of orthography, not of articulatory phonetics.


Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Ietf-languages <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Arthur Reutenauer
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 4:58 PM
To: Michael Everson <[email protected]>
Cc: IETF Languages Discussion <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Click letters in ISO 639-3 and Registry (long)

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 12:38:26AM +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
> Those two are ejectives, so the should use 02BC.

  Actually, according to Wikipedia, the apostrophe-like character indicates glottalisation after a click, and ejectiveness (is that a
word?) after other consonants, but I agree, the character definitely is
U+02BC in all cases.

	Best,

		Arthur

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