Re: replies to padraic brown and danny wier

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

>
>     Arabic does have a voiceless, uvular plosive, but nothing else.
> That
> letter "ghayn" is a voiced, velar fricative.  Counterpart with "ayn"
> (voiced
> phyryngeal fricative), and then with the pair "Haa" (voiceless
> phyryngeal
> fricative) and "khaa" (voiceless velar fricative).  What's the Dutch G
> sound
> like?  Is it a voiced uvular plosive?  Voiced velar fricative?
>
In the South of the Netherlands, and in Flanders (that's to say where I've been
long enough to know for sure), it's definitely a voiced velar fricative,
sometimes leaning to approximant (I mean that it's usually quite soft). In the
North of the Netherlands, it sounds more like a voiceless velar fricative (at
least according to the descriptions of my boyfriend), but I wasn't there long
enough to know for sure. When I'm settled in the Hague, I'll know for sure :) .

Christophe.

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