Re: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff

Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> wrote:
> > > The actual fricatives they become are:
> > >   {ph} -> [f]
> > >   {th} -> [T]
> > >   {kh} -> [C](SAMPA) the sound in German "ich"
[snip]
>
>         Maybe it's due to a property of aspiration in Wenetaic that would
> "centralise" the aspirated stop, so that {kh} is a little palatal (that
> would explain its realisation [C]) and {ph} a little retracted, so that
> its fricative form would be labiodental instead of dental.
Could be -- or maybe you can have both [C] and [x], depending on
whether the following sounds are front or back? For example, [C]
before [p] and [t], [x] before [k]?


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/