[lojban] ancient clicks

[Steven Belknap <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

There was a New York Times article last week about click languages that  
I thought might interest some people on this list. I find that I can  
distinguish at least 7 kinds of clicks: the tsk-tsk sound, the sound we  
make to horses we are riding to get them to trot, two kinds of loud  
popping sounds made by sucking and releasing the tongue from the hard  
palate, one with lips slack, the other with lips loose, a lip smacking  
noise,  a kissing noise and a tooth-sucking noise. I notice that chimps  
seem to use clicks in their communication. I remember a discussion I  
had some years ago about how these sounds were to be quoted in Loglan,  
though I don't remember the details. How does lojban handle quotation  
of click languages? What of other vocalisms that are not part of speech  
in widely-spoken languages?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/social/ 
18CLIC.html?pagewanted=all&position=top

-Steven