Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 2, 2004, 13:41 |
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* Mark J. Reed said on 2004-08-02 15:25:06 +0200
> For her birthday my wife received a German card game called
> Drahtseilakt. (We are of the opinion that the best board and
> card games come from Germany, and this one looks interesting
> so far.) My question, however, is how to pronounce the name -
> specifically, the |h|. Is it silent? Is it pronounced as [h],
> which feels awkward, but not impossible, to my English-speaking tongue
> in that position? Does it affect the preceding |a| somehow?
/x/ (because of the following t) or silent or lengthening the a are
my guesses.
t.