Re: X-files

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

PILCH Hartmut wrote:

> > Probably both the German sounds in "ich" and "ach" would work.  I am not sure
> > that either of them is described with a different symbol from /x/.
>
> these are contextual allophones: the palatalized one after front (e i \"a
> \"o \"u) vowels, as in "ich", the non-palatalized one after back (a o u)
> vowels, as in "Bach".
>
> In Modern Greek it works the opposite way: palatalized *before* front
> vowels (as in "oxi"  for "no"), non-palatalized *before* back vowels (as
> in "mixaniki" for "mechanics").
>
> For a conlang, one of these two distributions would have to be chosen.
> I'd prefer to avoid the choice and use only a non-palatalized x.
>

I would have thought that we could just as easily leave it up to the speaker.  I
palatalise all the time, simply because I prefer the sound.

co'o mi'e robin.