[G] for /r/ (was Re: my phonology)

Hallo!

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:07:31 -0000,
Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:

> Some few people around here use [G] instead of the more common
> [R] and even more common [4] for "r" (I did it too until in the
> middle of primary school, when the teacher realized it and
> inadvertantly made me a curiosity...  I then learned and
> switched to [4] within days ;-).  [G] for "r" sounds strange. I
> can well imagine a/G/-/R/ contrast in a language.
Funny that you mention that, because in the part of Germany
where I am from (Lippe, in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia),
pre-vocalic /r/ is indeed realized as [G] or something like that,
and in the local dialect of Low German, /G/ < intervocalic /g/,
and pre-vocalic /r/ sound the same.  This caused me to use |r|
for /G/ in a transliteration system I used for my conlangs in the
mid-80s.  Later, I changed that, using |r| for /r/ and |gh| for /G/.

Greetings,

Jörg.