[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban forms of names

[Elmo Todurov <todurov@gmail.com>]

Minimiscience wrote:
> de'i li 29 pi'e 09 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. Donald McLean .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> > One of my children has a name that starts with an 'H'. As near as I
> > can tell, the only use of this sound in Lojban is the apostrophe to
> > separate two vowels. What, then are the most common approaches for
> > handling this situation when converting names?
> .skamyxatra
>
> An 'H' at the beginning of a name is almost always Lojbanized into an 'x',
> which makes the sound of a voiced 'H' (the sound doesn't naturally exist in
> English, so I'm not sure how best to explain it).

Wrong. 'x' is not voiced. It's an unvoiced velar fricative, in other words, 
it's a h-like sound, made near the palate, not in the throat. Arabic and 
Russian use it a lot.