Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

Carlos Thompson wrote:
> 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].
Some consider /B D G/ to be more accurate phonemic transcriptions, as
the stop allophones occur only after nasals, if I recall the conditions
correctly.

Interesting speculation for a future Spanish conlang - stop allophones
are lost (via mb, nd, ng -> m, n, /N/, or perhaps mm, nn, /N:/), so that
stops have no voicing distinction, while fricatives do, thus:

p   t   k
f   s   x
 B D    G

Perhaps those could then change to be more "balanced", thus:

p   t   k
f   s   x
v   z   G

Stops would have voiced allophones, perhaps after voiced consonants (so
that /mp/ or /lp/ = [mb], [lb]), later, pre-stop nasals could be lost,
creating new voiced stops, (mp -> b), thus:

p   t   k
b   d   g
f   s   x
v   z   G

Written as:

p   t   c/qu
mp  nt  nc/nqu
f   s   j/g
b/v d   g/gu

(Thus, {banco} = /vago/, {de} = /ze/, {dónde} = /zone/)

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