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

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:23:39PM +0000, Peter Constable 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.

  In other words, there is no such thing as an ejective click, if I
understand correctly?

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

  It was orthography I talking about: I don’t have a better reference
than Wikipedia, whether online or offline, but the article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju%C7%80'hoan_dialect#Orthography seems
quite well informed and makes it clear that the apostrophe-like
character is used as a modifier after certain consonants – including
clicks – with several possible meanings.  That being the case, it would
seem that U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE is best suited to represent
it.  Do you agree?

	Best,

		Arthur

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