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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: The Sounds of Dutch
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:05:33 GMT
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In article <rharmsen.413.001516C9@knoware.nl> rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen) writes:
 > Sounds and Spelling of Dutch
 > ============================

A few corrections.
 > Spelling: p, or pp to close an otherwise open syllable, or b when final.
 > (A general rule says that any voiced consonant (except
 > nasals and l) becomes voiceless when final. Same as in German and
 > Russian, not the same as in English).
Also before other unvoiced consonants.  However in some situations voicing
comes back again.
 > 
 > Sound   : s
 > Descr.  : alveolar fricative (sibilant), voiced
Voiceless of course.
 > 
 > Sound   : Z
 > Descr.  : palatal sibilant, voiced
There is a tendency to voiceless.

 > Sound   : k
 > Spelling: k, kk, c, qu
Putting qu here is misleading; qu is almost always kv.
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