[lojban] ihi vs. ixi

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i didn't believe that "ihi is so incredibly hard to articulate", but i tried saying the two (ihi, ixi), and sure enough, when i say 'ihi', it sounds (almost) like 'ixi'.  i'm not sure i can tell them apart all the time, but there is still a difference.  the x-form is more emphatic than the h-form.
although german has both 'h' and 'x' (in front and back variants), i don't think they ever contrast.
in my high school spanish class (in phoenix), we were taught to use /h/ for spanish [g]/[j].  since then i've learned that it's more usual to pronounce it as /x/, but i believe that the two are free variants of each other, at least in mexican spanish.

steven lytle

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