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patchlore

Had a weird phoneme dream last night. Someone was trying to get me to pronounce their name for me, and they were sounding it out one piece at a time. One of these sounds was somehow in between an "L" and a "Th" sound, and the harmonics were very pronounced like a tuvan throat singer. My dream-brain kept on wanting to randomly label it "ï" for some reason, so it might have been a vowel too. Not convinced this is a valid phoneme (at least for human physiology).

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Nikita Karamov

@patchlore if th ⟨θ⟩/⟨ð⟩ is a voiceless/voiced dental fricative, and l ⟨l⟩ is a (voiced) lateral approximant, then maybe you've heard a lateral fricative?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceles

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_a

(pages have sound samples)

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