Talk:Velar ejective

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This article could possibly be merged with the article Ejective. Do we need a separate article for each point of articulation? I am not declaring policy, just raising a question on how best to organize these articles. There is much good material here, but I wonder if this is the best place toput it. Pete unseth (talk) 12:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

• If you click on any consonant symbol in the table at the bottom of the article, you will notice that there is a page for almost all sounds. That's why this page makes sense, in addition to the ejective page. Landroving Linguist (talk) 17:17, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Not quite. There aren't pages for palatalized, labialized, or aspirated sounds, nor for individual diphthongs or triphthongs. "ejective" is a type of laryngeal property applied to sounds that have place and manner of articulation features that correspond to other non-ejective consonants. [p], [t], [k], [q], and [s] are by far not the only plausibilities for consonants with ejective realizations and their selection is somewhat arbitrary. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 17:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)