thy thigh etc.

[proto-language]

Dear Stefan and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Georg" <Georg-Bonn at t-online.de>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 1:01 PM

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So what, is there a /w : v/ contrast in G. ? Not for sose vis a Hollyvood G.
accent, who still are se majorrity ...

[PCR]

When I begin to learn German, I attempted to pronounce [w] in all positions as
/v/.

I found that in words of the form C+[w], my pronunciation was in the extreme
minority. Germans from many different parts of Germany, with whom I grew up,
(almost) universally pronounced C+[w] as a bilabial (/w/) rather than as a
labiodental (/v/).

 Pat

PATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE at email.msn.com (501) 227-9947 * 9115 W. 34th
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http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/ and PROTO-RELIGION:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit ec
at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim
meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)