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Cross-Linguistic Transcription Systems
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ʍ as fricative #69

Closed tresoldi closed 6 years ago

tresoldi commented 6 years ago

/ʍ/ is described as a fricative in BIPA (line 199 of consonants.csv), but this is likely an error and it should be an approximant (in fact, as a fricative it becomes an alias to /xʷ/)

tresoldi commented 6 years ago

Wikipedia says that "On rare occasions the symbol is appropriated for a labialized voiceless velar fricative, [xʷ], in other languages." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_labialized_velar_approximant) maybe this is intentional?