Re: /x/ and 'inter-Germanic' (was: Intergermansk)

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

> It is quite clear from Philip's mail that Swedish does not have /x/; it is
> just that some varieties of Swedish have [x] as a realization of the
> phoneme /S/, while in other Swedish speaking areas it is realized as [s`]
> or [s\].
I don't see how that's clear at all. How do we determine that a phoneme that the
majority pronounces as [x] is, in fact, /S/? Especially when those who don't
mostly use [s`] or [s\] rather than [S]?

(Yes, I've got something personal against denoting this phoneme as /S/.)

Now, this is of limited interest to a project like Folkspraak, since the phoneme
doesn't have much of anything to do with the German /x/, but that's another
matter.

                                                    Andreas

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