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Re: [txeqli] semivowels, Lojbanizing, predicates



on 4/21/02 8:23 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote:


>> 
>> We could use 'w' as the voiced counterpart of 'x', if anybody's interested.
> 
> I have no idea how to pronounce this letter, but I'm told it sounds like
> gagging. (More so than 'x'.) I'd rather avoid it.

It's not so bad.  Common in Hindi and in some kinds of Spanish, as in
NicaraGua.   But not too great a contrast with g, so I'd skip it.

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