Talk:Voiceless glottal fricative
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Romanian has a [h]? Isn't that [x]? I've heard a native speaker pronounce it that way. The surrounding Slavic languages whose influence is supposed all have [x] but not [h].
Isn't the Uzbek sound something like [ħ]?
IMHO [h] is a glottal flap preceded by a glottal fricative or approximant. When I whisper /h/, only the fricative/approximant remains (it could be transcribed as [ɦ̥], and occurs at the end of words in e. g. Navajo); if I add the flap, I recognize the result as [hʔ].
David Marjanović | david.marjanovic_at_gmx.at | 1:24 CEST | 2006/5/11 (the first 3 sentences are maybe a year older)
