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Re: [lojban] Challenging pronunciation
I'm sorry but I still don't hear it.
As i understand, that is intentional, you should not hear the «'» sound:). I've got it that way: 1. make the voiced «x». 2. relax the muscles while saying it. 3. shorten it a bit.
Depending on exactly what you're "relaxing", you may be producing the voiced velar approximate [ɰ], or the breathy-voiced glottal fricative [ɦ], or something similar. That'd be interesting to listen to.
I am guessing that if either [ɰ] or [ɦ] ever became a prevalent allophone of Lojban /'/, then there's a good chance that that allophone would fortify to [ɣ], which would fill a gap in the consonant inventory.
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