https://dontthinktoomuch.com/why-is-g-pronounced-the-way-it-is-in-dutch/ Humanist. Lover of Words, Art, History, Ideas for the Future. Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://dontthinktoomuch.com/why-is-g-pronounced-the-way-it-is-in-dutch/#comment-17120 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:45:47 +0000 http://dontthinktoomuch.com/?p=388#comment-17120 Not even wrong. Uw argumenten volgen de naslagwerken helemaal niet. Belachelijk

]]> https://dontthinktoomuch.com/why-is-g-pronounced-the-way-it-is-in-dutch/#comment-16866 Fri, 21 Jun 2019 01:45:12 +0000 http://dontthinktoomuch.com/?p=388#comment-16866 As a northern Dutchman I’ve never heard the Northern Dutch ‘g’ (the hard one) pronounced as a voiced velar fricative (/ɣ/), but instead as a voiceless uvular fricative (/χ/). /ɣ/ Sounds almost indistinguishable from /x/ to me, so if someone were to use /ɣ/ I would think they were using the southern ‘soft g’.

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