Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: My conlang Némalo

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 7:47
Stephen Mulraney wrote:

> >> W: like Dutch, German, Frisian >> >> > I don't know what this sound is in Dutch or Frisian, but maybe you mean > /v/. On the other hand, is German <w> actually /w/? Is it bilabilal /B/ > maybe? [I've been wondering about this for a while, in an attempt to > figure out why Germans have the accent they do in English, when it comes > to pronouncing English <w> and <v>, and why it's so rare to find a > German without this accent feature] >
Germans have no /w/. <w> is /v/(and <v> is /f/). It's often quite hard to pronounce a letter you don't have. Hence Germans find it hard to pronounce [T], [D], and [w](just as some English-speakers find it hard to pronounce [x]. I was once watching a travel programme where someone tried to simulate [x] by shouting when he got to it, and inserting an [h].)

Reply

Emily Zilch <emily0@...>Germans have no /w/, Marking of Resonants, racist use of RL languages in Star Wars movies