Re: One consonant short.

Henrik Theiling wrote:

>Hi!
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>Tim May <butsuri@...> writes:
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>>Velar fricative (final consonant of Bach, in German)?
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>I know they (books, online material, etc.) keep on telling people that
>it is velar in German, but it is uvular in most dialects.  There are
>dialects that have it velar (e.g. Austrian), but most are uvular.
>(Pronouncing it velar might give you a Slavic accent. :-))
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>If the phoneme is called /x/, ok, but the phones are usually [C] after
>front vowel and other consonants, and [X] after back vowels.
>
>Just me two eurocents.
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Just wondering - are there any dialects which have [X] and [x] for /x/?

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