"H"'s (Was: Re: aquamarine demon (was <no subject>))

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:18:53PM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
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> > ObConlang: Needless to say, none of my conlangs have a /h/. The sound
> > spelt <h> is invariably a /x/.
>
> Really!  I find it quite nice to have phonemic /h/ and /?/.  Great
> consonants!  Only to beat by pharyngeal and epiglottal ones! :-)
Hmm, recently I've been noticing that the way I pronounce /x/ and /h/ are
quite (too) similar. My conlang distinguishes between /x/, /h/ and /?/,
but /xi/ and /hi/ sound a bit too alike to my ears. I was in fact thinking
of making them allophonic :-P Maybe in a descendent lang they will merge.
That should produce all kinds of interesting special cases (sorta like
Attic Greek's _ei^mi_ and eimi'_ business, really confusing).


T

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