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Re: Fave conlangs and essentialist explanations

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, April 4, 2002, 12:31
> > There seems to be a little mixup of X-SAMPA [G] and [G\] here (as well > as [R] and [R\], but that's less significant). > > [qX] (IPA lower case q and greek l-c xi), is a sequence of unvoiced uvular > stop and fricative. The voiced counterpart is [G\R] (IPA small caps G > and turned s-c R). > > [GR\] (IPA ram's horns (not quite greek l-c gamma) and s-c R) is a > sequence of voiced velar fricative and (voiced) uvular trill. And > IIRC, that is in fact what some variants of Dutch have in groen --- > but I think the standard description says [Grun], with an alveolar > trill instead. >
Hmmm...the book I read said that both were acceptable.

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Irina Rempt <irina@...>