[H]

From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>
> In a message dated 4/20/01 5:43:52 AM, alrivera@SOUTHERN.EDU writes:
>
> << Back in the throat?  Isn't /H/ the consonantal equivalent of /y/, the
>
> rounded front vowel?  What is [H] used for here? >>
>
>     I actually explained in the original that it was a voiceless
pharyngeal
> fricative. What could be a better symbol for it than [H]?
Well, the IPA gives it a crossed lower-case 'h', and SAMPA gives it [X\].
Personally I think [X\] is more apt, as it seems to me more like the
harshness of [x] (or actually [X] which is an uvular fricative) than the
smoothness of [h].  ;)

     *Muke!
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