Re: [lojban] pronunciation and "x"

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 12 November 2011 13:16:16 Luke Bergen wrote:
> ahhhhh that makes sense.  So the "h"iness comes from the fact that it's a
> continuous air-flow and the "k"ness comes from the fact that it's the back
> of your tongue.  Fail the continuous flow and it sounds like a "k".  Fail
> to restrict the flow with the back of the tongue and it sounds like "h".
>  Does that sound about right?

Sounds right to me. The sound occurs in Spanish (which doesn't distinguish it 
from [h]; both original "h" and "h" derived from "f" are silent), Russian 
(which has [h] as an allophone of /g/ so Russians go to the gospital), and 
Arabic (which distinguishes it from both /h/ and /χ/). Hindi has 
aspirated "k" instead, and I don't know about Chinese.

By the way, "Blech" is German for "sheet metal". Recycle bins have a 
compartment for Weißblechdosen (tin cans).

Pierre
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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