Jul 9
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
Well, the obvious answer is sje (a.k.a. /ɧ/), but that's not really a phoneme, that's at best a diaphoneme.
I think I've heard of a language with a doubly articulated (probably labial-velar) affricate, but a quick Google search doesn't find anything like that and it doesn't seem very clear that those are even possible.
As far as reasonably normal phonemes that actually occur in reasonably normal languages go, I guess I'm a fan of /ɦ/, a little. Not sure if there are better candidates...
#sje#sje (sound)#heng with hook#hooked heng#swedish language mention#possessivesuffix mention#labial-velar consonants mention#(now that i've done the search i have no idea whether they even *can* be affricates)#voiced glottal fricative#(apparently also known as voiced glottal approximant; i am not sure what the difference is)#(it is *fascinating* to watch russian transliterations scramble to figure out how to represent that sound in hebrew)#(it's very not simple because most of the obvious options are already taken for other sounds that *also* exist in hebrew)#i love the whole world and all its messed-up folks#ask reply#ask response#thanks for actually using the ask button by the way#ipatranscriber