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Hunting the Elusive Labio-Nasal

Published: Aug. 25, 2012, 12:08 p.m.

b'Hunting the Elusive Labio-Nasal; by Claude Searsplainpockets; From Volume CLI, No 3 of Speculative Grammarian, July 2006. \\u2014 The now well-known clicks found in certain African languages must have come as quite a shock to the first European linguists who heard them. Many of the sounds were familiar, of course, but the idea that they could be a component of language had to have been hard to believe. Even now the languages of Africa have secrets to share\\u2014note the recent addition of \\u201cright hook v\\u201d to the IPA as the symbol for the \\u201clabiodental flap\\u201d found in numerous African languages. (Read by Claude Searsplainpockets.)'