"Sofia parolas la polan kaj la ĉeĥan."
Translation:Sofia speaks Polish and Czech.
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It sounds like "ch" in German!
EDIT: A better comparison might be when a kid gets veggies they don't want to eat, they go "Ugghh", the "gghh" sounding like they are saying the letter k repetitively. That is the sound of Ĥ.
It sounds like “Ach!“ in German. That is a Voiceless uvular fricative. Compare this to “Ich“ in German. That is a Voiceless palatal fricative.
In PIV is written: “senvoĉa frikativa velaro”. Therefore you always have to pronounce the first of the both.
I question this explanation. English speakers will vary the place of articulation of the "K sound" depending on what vowel is being pronounced. The "CH sound" in German varies in a similar way. When you say "ich auch" the place of articulation of CH is very similar the place of articulation of the made up words "eek owk".
I really doubt it's universal (or even recommended) to pronounce ĥ the same in words like ĥimero vs ĥoro.
Interesting fact- the letters gh used to always represent /x/ or /ç/ the way German CH does now-> night was pronounced identically to German nicht, and laugh was pronounced like lach would be in German.
No. Es español de todos los países de habla hispana. It is a strong h sound.
Varía a lo largo de todos los países
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties#Pronunciation_of_.22j.22
Algo que debemos entender todos los hispanohablantes es que, si bien sí existe un español estándar, no existe un español correcto.
Hay un montón de variantes y cada una es tan válida como la anterior.
Benevolent97, no sé de qué país eres, pero debes saber que en español la j no se pronuncia igual que la h inglesa. Entonces la h inglesa se pronuncia /h/ (suave) y la j española /x/ (más fuerte que la anterior), no se trata siempre de una aspiración, y éste último sonido es equivalente a la ĥ en esperanto.
Para que un esperantista pronuncie genjibre en español (ginger), deberá decir en esperanto ĥenĥibre.
I am a native Spanish speaker from Guatemala. If you want to know more about:
http://pronunciaringles.com/2008/06/16/h-inglesa-versus-jota-espanola/
Es interesante que en Guatemala usen la jota "fuerte" (fricativa velar sorda) al igual que en México. Yo soy de Costa Rica y aquí usamos la jota suave, la de perro jadeando jajaja (fricativa glotal sorda) que es identica a la h del inglés. Y no es que nosotros nos creamos muy gringos, sino que la jota suave apareció en el español en el sur de España (Sevilla). De ahí se transmitió a diferentes lugares de América, como es el Caribe y Costa Rica. Por eso dicen que los ticos hablamos con acento "caribeño". Yo pensaba que la jota suave era de toda Centroamérica y que eso nos distinguîa de México que usa la jota fuerte. Parece que estaba equivocado.
The people down-voting you are clearly not native Spanish speakers from Latin-America. We have 'H' sound (J), but not 'Ĥ'.
I was wondering if my keyboard can write it, but luckily yes. Ĥĥ. Btw I thought it's Maltian letter but that's Ħħ
Im not sure why but the fact that 'kaj esperanton' was written in all capital letters was really funny to me
Don't russian your work.. Swahili when I say I'm trying to swiss these pun-jabi's up. I'm gonna ma'lay over here and pull out somal more. Just rome around. I could be manderin in my house for ever. Ey, I could never finnish. I welsh I could stay wayyy-allisian too long just faijjaning around. Don't want to get fiji-ty do we? I mean, puns can be nothing budapest. It's nice to have something to croat at. I'm slavi'ing away on this song-hai! Does this even have any seoul anymore? I mean I really don't have to sweden these up any further, do I? I'm bengali be long. I can't say I'm hindi-ing my own business ;_; It's pretty bulgarian. A massacre. Mayan work should be copyrighted. I'm gonna dubai one. Norway did I spend this much time on this. Kenya even think of any more languages? Hmm, my mum is a linguist, Alaska. I swear, israeli fun. Agarta write a skit. Could make a korea out of this. Could charge a czech for this one day. Hey, don't taiwan. It's a sicily thing I've done here if you ask me. Don't be nepalled. Let's just be prague-matic about it. Iran out of puns. Kidding, I'm never syrias. Tokyo a while to read it ;) Serbs ya right. I bet you even want somao. No need to polish your puns any longer. Honestly, Czechmate. I know you hate toulouse. Sa'long! =']
The hardest part was spelling "Czech"...
Thank you Esperanto Phonetics!! (I needed auto correct for "Phonetics")
It seems as if the speaker is realising 'ĥ' as /χ/ instead of /x/. Is one more common than the other? It seems weird as I thought that /x/ was more of a correct pronounciation.
The /x/ is the standard way to pronounce it, according to several sources, but this isn't a very strict rule. You'll hear both /χ/ and /x/ from fluent speakers. It often depends on where they are from. So Germans and Dutchmen use the uvular sound, Russians and Greeks use /x/...
Well. I've now gone through hours of Polandball and just now returned over an hour later.
I have a question for native Swedish speakers. Is it the same sound as that one in Swedish words like "sju", "choklad", "station", etc.?
Yes. But, the sound can vary. In Stockholm, people use the "ɧ" sound (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ASv-sjok.ogg) for those words, while people from the north generally use the "sh" sound for those words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sv-kjol.ogg). Source: my grandmother and grandfather and my parents. Not really me though, I grew up in central Sweden. I don't know if that made a difference, but whatever, I don't pronounce things like my relatives.
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it! So, you are a Swede who studies Esperanto, eller hur? :-) I was referring to the "ɧ" version of that Swedish sound, the most common, I suppose. Do you think that "ɧ" and "ĥ" have the same sound?
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Yes, I'm a Swede who's learning Esperanto.
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No, I don't think "ɧ" and "ĥ" have the same sound. They are very similar, but I pronounce the "ĥ" with a wider and more open mouth... It's hard to explain. But they are very similar.
Trevligt att träffas, AANickFan! Jag skulle gärna vilja lära mig svenska jättebra. The "ɧ" sound seems a little bit softer to me, but I can't perceive clearly the difference, because both these sounds don't exist in my native language.
No, they don't. The ĥ is phonetically written as [x] and occurs e.g. in German "Bach", Scottish "loch", Spanish "rioja", Russian "tyxo" (тыхо), Mongolian "khaan" (хаан), Chinese "hànyǔ" (汉语), Dutch "echt"; Greek "kháos" (χάος), Arabic "khalad" (خلد), Hebrew "Khanukah" (חנוכה), etc.
It's interesting, thank you! Anyway, [x] and /ɧ/ are quite similar. Some information about /ɧ/ from Wikipedia (Swedish phonology): The Swedish phoneme /ɧ/ (the "sje-sound" or voiceless postalveolar-velar fricative) and its alleged coarticulation is a difficult and complex issue debated amongst phoneticians.[47] Though the acoustic properties of its [ɧ] allophones are fairly similar, the realizations can vary considerably according to geography, social status, age, gender as well as social context and are notoriously difficult to describe and transcribe accurately. Most common are various [ɧ]-like sounds, with [ʂ] occurring mainly in northern Sweden and [ɕ] in Finland. A voiceless uvular fricative, [χ], can sometimes be used in the varieties influenced by major immigrant languages like Arabic and Kurdish.
Yes, true, they do sound similar. The ɧ sound was described as "simultaneous ʃ and x sound", which I think seems a bit fitting.
It matters, because in Esperanto it would then be Sop-hia. Although proper names are an entirely different beast. Many people don't want their name to be esperantized.
We should have Sophia as a possible answer to every appearance of Sofia in the course. If it's not, please report it, thanks! :)
"Ĥ" is pronounced like "h" in "hat", but you must rise your tongue in a place you touch when you pronounce "c" in "cat".
I thought that use of "Ĥ" had been abolished? (Mi pensis, ke la uzo de la letero "Ĥ" abolicis?)
Is it acceptable to pronounce "ĥ" as /k/ if you can't pronounce /x/, similarly to how /ʁ/ will be understood if you can't pronounce /r/?
Why can't I say "Sophia"? After all in the beginning of the lesson, we were told that the English equivalent of Sofia in EO is Sophia in Eng
Did the real Sofia actually speak Czech? I'd assume she spoke polish because Zamenhof was a pole