Re: reformed Welsh Spelling - comments?

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>
> [snip]
> >
> >> [snip]
> >>> c=k
> >>> ch=x
> >>
> >> Surely, to any non-linguist |x| suggests [ks]?  I can't think of any
> >> natlangs that use the Roman alphabet which write [X] as |x|. But I can
> >> think of some that write |ch|.
> >
> > Assuming that's meant to be [x],
>
> False assumption.  I wrote and meant [X].
>
> It's a voiceless _uvular_ fricative (tho the velar pronunciation is often
> used by anglophones).
Then perhaps you can answer the question I had under the assumption that it
was meant to be [X]? Namely, what other languages are you thinking of that
writes it as |ch|? I still can't think of any.

                                                  Andreas

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