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

The recommended character for this is 02BC, even if it is polyvalent in the IPA as regards its function when next to different kinds of letters. It’s the high 9-shaped modifier letter.

> On 12 Mar 2018, at 16:23, Peter Constable <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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