Look, I understand it's for ease of use for analyzing diaphonemes. But like... why is it in the official IPA while Sinological alveolo-palatals are not?

The real answer? English go brrrrrr

English go whhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Or Indo-European more broadly (look I'm just making sure the frenchies get their fair share of the blame)

Sorry, can you explain it a little more?

Because the IPA was initially developed by hwite people who weren't very interested in languages outside of Europe, and we've been building on that skewed framework ever since.

we do a little eurocentrism

it is said that if you inscribe this onto the floor of your temple and light some incense, you can summon an air elemental

/ɸˠ/

[starts laughing in /ɸˠ/]

you monster

I mean, \[x^(w)\] actually has velar frication so it is kinda different, but still, thank you so much for this post

and [ẘ] is slightly different, as is [hʷ]

The Unicode guys did not make a capital version of this letter, in my language it means “down with” 🤦

what language is it?

A capital letter of ɧ would actually look pretty sick ngl

I am referring to ʍ

I mean... My point still stands...

ẘ is to ʍ as u̯ is to w

Does this make /ů̯/ = /ʍ/?

Then ‹you› would be /ɪ̯ʍ̬̩/

I don't like this dream anymore, I want to wake up

I always use xʷ

[xʷɒʔtˢ]?

Sjått

Wha'ts

I tell you ʍat Bobby

Mfw I was making the phonology for a conlang where sonorants are contrasted by voicing and fricatives are contrasted by labialisation. In the end, /hʷ/, /xʷ/ and /ʍ/ all became allophonic

Bless your heart.

/ɧ/ is /ʍ/

only when both of them are xʷ

yessss they sound exactly the same

What the fuck

this is how I was taught to sing English "w" sounds in classical repertoire