Re: Affricatives

Elyse Grasso scripsit:

> I can almost 'hear' a k affricating(?) with a German ch, though it would
> take practice to pronounce it. (Actually, the stop would be farther
> back than an English k.) And I'm not sure what a voiced form would
> sound like...
In Upper German, initial k > kx, just as p > pf and t > ts.  This change
did not make it into the standard, but is found in Swiss German and other
southern dialects.

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