Maarten Beek wrote:
> > Van: Danny Wier
> >
> > >Nederlands/Dutch is essntiallij a Low Germanic language with
> > that funkij <
> >
> > Or better yet, _vunkij_ since Dutch voices initial fricatives.
>
>Wat een vlauwekul... I mean, flauwekul! Voiced and voiceless initial
>fricatives are phonemically distinct, as can be seen by looking at these
>minimal pairs in Dutch:
>
>fee (fairy) - vee (cattle)
That _vee_ is suspiciously similar to English "fee", which's Swedish cognate
_fä_ means "livestock". Has Dutch been vary evil against labiodental
fricatives during some period of it's history?
Andreas
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