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Re: barred-h

From:Fabian <rhialto@...>
Date:Sunday, August 29, 1999, 11:15
l-gharef Danny Wier hu kiteb


> Aw I like <x>! It has a sense of being a forbidding sound, like a velar
or
> uvular fricative. Plus it's closer to <k> in sound than <x> (at least to > me), and even so I kinda hafta reserve anything resembling an <h> for > glottal-pharyngeal range consonants. But anyway, <x> is also a common > "dummy" argument, especially from algebra, and of course you got its use
in
> Esperanto. > > A symbol that makes a good alternative is commonly used in Hebrew > transcription: a barred <k>. That's for velar; if you want uvular you
could
> have a barred <q>, or a dotted and barred <k>...
Me too! <x> is a wonderful letter to use for the [S] sound. Hmm, the truth comes out now... Demuan is spoken by a Maltese expatriate community living in China! Persuading them that <q> should be read as [tS] and not [?] took some talking. Some of them stil insist on writing <c>, even now. Although they do put a dot over it to distinguish it from the pinyinb <c>. --- Fabian If a flying horse ye see, mock ye not if it stays up not.