Re: G'amah phonology

At 11:18 pm -0500 19/2/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
>FFlores wrote:
[...]
>> <h> is /H/ (uvcd pharyngeal fric), with allophones
>>     [x] after /i/
>>     [H] otherwise
>
>Intuitively, [x] after /i/ as an allophone of /H/ seems rather unlikely
>to me.  But, I'm only going on intuition, I don't know much about those
>kinds of sounds.
Yes, I don't know why /H/ has this allophone.  [Ix] certainly occurs in
Welsh, so I guess [ix] also occurs in natlangs.  But if [i] triggers
allophones, it's generally a palatalizing effect.  I'd have expected German
ich-laut [C] after [i] rather than ach-laut [x].

>> <ll> is [Z<lat>] (much like Welsh <ll>, but rather palatal)
>
>Do you mean that it is a palatal lateral fricative?  Quite interesting!
Yes, a sound I make with ease.  I once intended to use it in a now-dormant
conlang of mine and was subsequently reliably informed that the sound
occurs in Icelandic.

>> all as in IPA. /o/ sometimes alternates with [@_O].
>
>Voiceless schwa?
Ah, the zero vowel   :)

Ray.

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