Re: USAGE: R: Re: USAGE: Dutch pronunciation
| From: | Mangiat <mangiat@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 15, 2000, 11:23 |
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> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mangiat wrote:
>
> > Irina wrote:
> >
> > > > (We have a Dutch librarian at work, and I tried to show off the
other
> > > > day and pronounce the name of Aard van Wijngaarden to her. /Ard fan
> > > > w@jnGArde/, right? But I missed deleting the final <n>).
> > >
> > > Close: I'd say [art fan 'wEjnxard@].
> >
> > What? Didn't you use -n to mark the plural?
>
> Yes, but most Dutch speakers don't pronounce final -n after shwa.
> Doing so is either Southern dialect or pedantry/spelling
> pronunciation.
Oh well... One of my thousands Germanic Conlangs, sorta futureDutch, became
agglutinating, using -en everywhere for the plural (ik maak, du maak, hij
maak, iken maken, duen maken, hijn maken), -s everywhere for genitive
(defiet 'the bike', defiets 'of the bike', defieten, defietens), -te
everywhere for dative and so on... Now I discovey that the plural marker
wouldn't work : )
Luca