Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:35:00 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > (I've got a sketch of German phonology that lists /x/ and /r/ as a
> > voiceless/voiced fricative pair along with /f/~/v/ and /s/~/z/.)
>
> That's more or less what it feels like to me, though my /x/ and /r/
> don't feel uvular to me - at least, they're not as far back as when I
> try to make a [q]. But they're definitely further back than my /k/ and
> /g/.
Personally, I find it counterintuitive, because /r/ does not pattern like the
(other) voiced fricatives do. That I use a velar [x], and still tend to use
front versions of /r/, won't be helping.

                                                  Andreas

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