LL-L "Phonology" 2004.08.27 (12) [E]

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From: john feather <johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Phonology

Luc wrote in reply to Bill's question about Dutch:

>This final "n" is not much of a problem. You just have the  choise to say
the words with or without the "n".
Most of the people from "Nederland" do not use the final "n". Most of the
people of "Vlaanderen" do use the final "n". With "Staaten Eylandt" i think
everybody will use the "n" just to put the two words together in an easy
way.<

I was taught a different rule so I looked it up. Within the Netherlands the
difference reflects the division between the Saxon dialects of the NE and
the Franconian dialects of the SW. Final "n" is dropped south and west of a
line running roughly NW-SE through Arnhem. Of course most Netherlanders live
in this area.

An "n" is sometimes added purely for euphony to divide a vowel at the end of
one word from another at the beginning of the next. Donaldson cites 'wat zie
ik' => ''wat zien ik'; 'toen hoorde hij' => 'toen hoorde-n-ie'.

John Feather
johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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