Re: Ant: Palatovelars

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Steven Williams <feurieaux@Y...> wrote:

>There is a palatovelar semivowel, namely, [H] (the
>initial consonant in the French /huite/ [Hit] or the
>Mandarin Chinese /yuen/ [HVn]). Now, this can be seen
>as a palatalized [w], but it's definitely a
>smoothly-pronounced palatovelar semivowel, at least as
>far as I hear...
In the X-sampa chart on Wikipedia, [H] is called a labial-palatal
approximant.  "huit" is given as the example.

Charlie
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