Re: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Original Nature of Emphatics (was

Just looking at the cognates (I trust) in extant languages we have:

1. Neo-Aramaic dialects have glottalised consonants.
2. South Arabian languages have glottalised consonants
3. Ethipoian Semitic languages (I presume he excludes Arabic!) have
glottalised consonants
4. Berber languages have pharyngealisation, as in Arabic
5. Chadic has a mixture of implosive and ejective consonants - the
pattern being implosive at the front and ejective at the back
6. Cushitic and Omotic show a similar picture to Chadic, though a few
languages have retroflex coronals.
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Impressive !
Arnaud
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Is there any reason why pharyngealised labials should be rare?
Richard.

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From the point of view of articulation,
Glottal or Pharyngeal has a low "yield" with labials
because the amount of air is to big to make something efficient.
And from acoustics,
if you follow Jakobson-like analysis,
Pharyngeal is "dark" and labial is "dark" too
dark upon dark...(can't be *clear*)
Arnaud
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