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Re: fortis vs lenis (was Re: German style orthography)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, December 11, 2004, 22:57
Quoting Rene Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...>:

> > Do the other germanic > > languages also aspirate unvoiced stops like English does? > > Dutch doesn't. Just unaspirated stops.
As I understand it, Dutch (and Afrikaans?) is the exception proving the rule in this case, at least as standard languages are concerned. Andreas