Re: Fave conlangs and essentialist explanations

From: "daniel andreasson" <danielandreasson@...>

| Danny Wier wrote:
|
| > By the way, what non-Klingon, non-Caucasian languages contain
| > the consonant phoneme or phone /qX/ (or even /GR/)?
|
| Haha! I know that! That's got to be Dutch! :)

You're right, it does... I actually meant IPA small capital G and inverted small
capital R, but I forgot the SAMPA for both. I think it involves backslashes, so
the sound is like [G\R\], right? That's the voiced counterpart of /qX/.

I'm asking because I think I'm gonna have that sound in Exian, the actual value
of the aspirated, non-ejective uvular voiceless stop (like Old Georgian, Exian
has /q(h)/ and /q'/). And my attempts at pronouncing [qh] come out as the
affricate [qX], which would be okay besides.

~Danny~

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