Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

En réponse à Sally Caves <scaves@...>:

> If only you were standing here in front of me and could demonstrate it!
Well, listen to Piaf singing and you'll have a perfect example of the typical
Parisian dialect ;))) . Her "r"s are pure uvular trills :) .

>
> So another aspect of Maggelity is having way too many sounds for a
> natural
> language? :)   What's the voiced velar approximant?
>
[M\] in X-SAMPA, a strange sign called "turned m with long right leg" in IPA.
Since [w] is a voiced labiovelar approximant, as you can guess [M\] is
basically [w] without the labial component :)) . Go to
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ to find it in the table of pulmonic
consonants (and click on it to hear it! ;)) ).

Christophe.

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