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Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

From:James Landau <neurotico@...>
Date:Friday, December 20, 2002, 21:42
In a message dated 12/19/2002 7:21:13 AM Pacific Standard Time,
christopher.bates@NTLWORLD.COM writes:


> Is gh (i don't know the ascii ways of representing IPA sounds, but I > mean a voiced velar fricative) common? I think english used to have the > sound, as did welsh (or at least g used to be mutated to gh a long time > ago) but for some reason it disappeared. I just wondered because I love > the sound for some reason but I don't want to add it if its extremely > uncommon in natural languages. Thanks in advance, > > Chris B. >
I've always had gh in Kankonian -- as long as I can remember making up words for it. It was intended to be a harder, darker G at the back of the throat just like the "gh" is in Arabic. That's what I think of when I think of "gh". I always assumed it was a normal sound that occurred in Arabic and therefore probably occurred in other languages too. Never thought it might be extremely rare.