GERMAN FRICATIVE PHONEMES: FEEDBACK

The two fricatives [ç] and [x] should be considered allophones of the same phoneme, at least on the evidence of these words.  The reasons are:

In reality, the situation is a little more complex than this, but on the evidence on these words there is a single phoneme with [ç] and [x] as two of its allophones.  So a phonemic transcription of German would use the same symbol for both sounds.   For example, we could write /dɔlx/ dagger  and /buːx/ book.