Talk:Somali phonology

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"Common Somali has 22 consonant phonemes. It has at least one consonant at every place of articulation on the IPA chart (except epiglottal)."

Is this a very accurate statement? To say it includes every POA on the IPA chart is, as far as I can see, corrent; but as epiglottal is mentioned should we not also mention the other places of articulation such as linguolabial, dentolabial, alveolopalatal, prepalatal, and *epiglotto-pharyngeal? That would greatly reduce the accuracy of the first statement. --user:Cevlakohn

I don't really know why the point about epiglottal is in brackets since it is the single exception to the statement. Perhaps we should say the main IPA chart? I can't see any reason to mention the other places since they are not on the main chart. Gailtb 09:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uvular-epiglottal consonants

What about the uvular-epiglottal consonants? There's an article Uvular-epiglottal consonant that says that Somali has [q͡ʡ] which isn't mentioned by this article. Pittmirg 14:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Per Jerold Edmondson (2005) The valves of the throat and their functioning in tone, vocal register, and stress: laryngoscopic case studies, Somali contrasts breathy and harsh voice, not ±ATR. I'll correct if I get a chance, but it might be a while. kwami (talk) 00:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC)