Re: G'amah phonology

FFlores wrote:
> Some informants have produced creaky voiced stops
Interesting.  Never have liked those sounds, but since this is intended
as a harsh language, cool.  :-)

> <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.

> <ll> is [Z<lat>] (much like Welsh <ll>, but rather palatal)
Do you mean that it is a palatal lateral fricative?  Quite interesting!

> all as in IPA. /o/ sometimes alternates with [@_O].
Voiceless schwa?

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