Re: Dutch R

From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>

| It is true, that at least in the Netherlands the [r]
| speakers are outnumbered by the [R] speakers. In
| Belgium, however, the overwhelming majority of Flemish
| people pronounce it like [r].
| No offense meant, but I think that the [R] is in many
| cases the result of a certain lazy carelessness,
| characteristic for the pronunciation among mostly
| younger Dutch people of their language.

I don't speak much Dutch, but I was thinking that the uvularization of R could
be Franco-German influence, a product of modern European unification? A "lazy"
pronunciation to me would be more like IPA's inverted lowercase r, the English
rhotic.

~Danny~

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