Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, tim talpas <tim@Z...> wrote:

 > On a side note:
 >
 > My impression of [G] (as well as [x]) is that it tends to vary in
raspy-ness,
 > I always recall dutch /x/ almost with a raspy, trilly quality. All the
 > information I've read about Dutch says that [x] is somehow different
 > from the [x] of say, german. Yet they both still qualify as [x].

Actually, they don't.  The "trilly" sound of Dutch (which is also
used in Swiss German, Klingon and Welsh if I'm not mistaken) is
an uvular fricative /X/ (Greek letter chi in IPA) as opposed to
the smooth velar /x/ of High German.


-- Christian Thalmann