LL-L "Phonology" 2003.05.13 (05) [E]

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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2003.05.12 (01) [E]

16:56 12-5-2003 -0700, Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>:
>When speaking Dutch I lazily resort to the 'ghamma' sound for that
>tricky [g] as in /dag/ and am usually smiled at - perhaps because I
>make a brave attempt at the fiendishly difficult phoneme. However, does
>'ghamma' occur in that position in any Dutch variants?

It does occur, but not finally, only between vowels.
So there's [X in dag, but the gamma sound in "dagen".
Some people use [X] evenyhen, but not many.
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Ruud Harmsen  http://rudhar.com/index/whatsnew.htm  11 May 2003

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