Re: Newbie...intro to my conlang

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Beau Didler wrote:

> Thanks!  While were talking symbol pronunciation, is the symbol that looks
> like the german s-tset (greek Beta) a bilabial fricative, and is that the
> sound in spanish that gets mistaken for /b/?
In fact, it is a greek beta and doesn't look much like es-zet :) (if using
Unicode to write the IPA on a computer, you have to use the beta from the
Greek section, even though there is an IPA section in Unicode). And yes,
it is a bilabial fricative, and yes, I do believe it exists in Spanish (as
an allophone for Spanish /b/ or, debatably, as the phoneme /B/ which has
an allophone /b/). So I think that's a yes to your last one too :)

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Tristan