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On Saturday 12 November 2011 13:16:16 Luke Bergen wrote:
> ahhhhh that makes sense.  So the "h"iness comes from the fact that it's a
> continuous air-flow and the "k"ness comes from the fact that it's the bac=
k
> of your tongue.  Fail the continuous flow and it sounds like a "k".  Fail
> to restrict the flow with the back of the tongue and it sounds like "h".
>  Does that sound about right?

Sounds right to me. The sound occurs in Spanish (which doesn't distinguish =
it=20
from [h]; both original "h" and "h" derived from "f" are silent), Russian=
=20
(which has [h] as an allophone of /g/ so Russians go to the gospital), and=
=20
Arabic (which distinguishes it from both /h/ and /=CF=87/). Hindi has=20
aspirated "k" instead, and I don't know about Chinese.

By the way, "Blech" is German for "sheet metal". Recycle bins have a=20
compartment for Wei=C3=9Fblechdosen (tin cans).

Pierre
--=20
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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