USAGE: Flemish "g" (was: USAGE: Latin alphabet (Re: Chinese Dialect Question))
| From: | James Campbell <james@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 8:13 |
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Christophe eskrë »
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>... and in Flemish dialects [h], unless
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>1. You're not counting that as Dutch
>2. My ears and/or memory fail/ed me.
I'm pretty sure that 2. is the correct proposition here. I hear Flemish
dialects pretty much everyday (between the Belgian channels and my inlaws
who live at 6km from the frontier with Belgium, and speak a dialect
extremely close to Flemish) and I'm pretty sure that they pronounce the "g"
[G] tending sometimes to uvular.
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I stand corrected [in my orthopaedic shoes]. My recollection is based on one
2-day visit to friends-of-friends near Bruges, er, Brugge, 6 years ago. I'd
been to the Hague the previous year and just about mastered Dutch "g", but
was told by my hosts that the Flemish pronunciation was different. The
example given was "regen", pronounced in Amsterdam /rE:G@/ but in Brugge
/re:h@n/ (transcriptions very approximate, and, it would appear, entirely
wrong). If anyone could clarify this I'd be very grateful.
James (currently working on the new edition of the Jameld dictionary)
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