<div dir="ltr">Hello Jeff,<br><br>I have done fieldwork on a Torricelli language called Heyo, spoken in northwestern Papua New Guinea, for my doctoral dissertation. In that language, the glottal stop represents feminine singular in many instances. The glottal stop is also a common phoneme in Heyo. In the example below, all instances of morphs indicating feminine singular contain a glottal stop, with the exception of the subject prefix w-.<br><br>ru'-a' kiy-a' belu-' w-a-po'<br><a href="http://3F.Sg.Pro-3F.Sg">3F.Sg.Pro-3F.Sg</a> that-3F.Sg one-3F.Sg 3F.Sg.Subj-Non.Fut-sit<br>that one [woman] was sitting<br><br>That being said, there is a rather important caveat, depending on the intention behind the question. Heyo is not a language which is written with much, if any, frequency. As such, there is no "standard" written language. In talking with speakers about producing written materials in the language, some speakers prefer using an apostrophe, as I do. However, some prefer to write a glottal stop with a hyphen. So, the feminine singular pronoun ru'a' would be written by some as ru-a-. In materials I produce, I use an apostrophe, since using a hyphen would make interlinear glossing all but impossible.<br><br>If you would like more information on Heyo, or if you need clarification, please feel free to ask. I hope my reply has provided at least some useful information.<div><br>Respectfully,<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thomas S. Diaz (He/Him)<div>PhD Candidate</div><div>Department of Linguistics</div><div>University at Buffalo (SUNY)</div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:06 AM Jeff Siegel <<a href="mailto:jsiegel2@une.edu.au">jsiegel2@une.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Greetings:<br>
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I'm posting a question from a colleague in Germany:<br>
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do you know of any language where the apostrophe represents a glottal<br>
stop and where it highlights morphological information? that is, the<br>
apostrophe (the glottal stop) only occurs at word-initial or word-final<br>
position or at morpheme boundaries. it would be great if you could give<br>
me an example. unfortunately i could not find any in the literature. <br>
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Grateful for any replies.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Jeff<br>
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