Re: [bpfk] official cmavo form

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> Is /stabaa/ an alternative notation or analysis for /staba'a/? 

Yes.  That's what I thought you were going after.

> I think [hw] is virtually inarticulable. I don't know if anybody knows
> the frequency of [W] or any other phone in the world's languages. The
> fact that it's rare as the primary allophone of a phoneme doesn't
> mean it's rare as a phone. 

Fair enough.  Wikipedia reports it as phonemic in Cornish and Hupa, and
allophonic in Nahuatl (before voiceless consonants) and Taiwanese
(as an articulation of /hw/), aside from its special status in English.

> How about /ixi/ and /uxu/?

Unless I am very careful, I always articulate [x] as [X] in any language.
I have no trouble with either [iXi] or [uXu].

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