Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

Cristian Jensen wabbe:


> But don't you speak Spanish, Barry?
> [...] Perhaps its because the sound is an
> allophone of <g> that you don't realize that you are able to make
that
> sound?
Barry is not a native speaker of Spanish, and I don't know how well he
speaks or if he handles all those subtle allophones.

But yes.  Spanish /g/ could be realized as [G] (SAMPA, in Kirch is
[Q], gamma in IPA), and is perfectly posible besides an /i/, like
Colombian goalkeeper "René Higuita" /igita/ that is pronounced as
[iGita].

-- Carlos Th