Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

En réponse à Andreas Johansson :


>Doesn't [tv_0e:] occur?
To me, it would sound as if someone was trying to say "tvee" :))) . I've 
heard /v/s get unvoiced (especially above the rivers :)) . In the South 
it's less common), but never /w/ :)) .

>  I seem to recall that at least some varieties of Low
>German has _twee_ [tv_0eI], but I may be wrong.
It would be possible then that Eastern dialects of Dutch (which look more 
like German dialects than Dutch dialects to me :)) ) would do that then, 
but I must admit knowing only very little about them :(( .

>In my book, [tv] and [tv\] are both abominable clusters, but then I've heard
>the Dutch consistently voice their voiced stops, so what can you expect? :)
And then there's this time I was watching TV with my friend, listening to a 
girl interviewed who spoke such a strange dialect of Dutch that they had to 
subtitle it (they do that often on Dutch TV). I then asked my friend who 
has a very good knowledge of Dutch dialects what dialect she spoke. I could 
understand pieces of what she spoke, but never the full story. He then told 
me: "she's speaking Swedish!".

So to me now Swedish is essentially the strangest dialect of Dutch I ever 
heard ;))) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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