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In English, the sound of soft g is the affricate /dʒ/, as in general, giant, and gym. A g at the end of a word usually renders a hard g (as in "rag"), while if a soft rendition is intended it would be followed by a silent e (as in "rage").
In Northern Dutch, /ɣ/ appears immediately before voiced consonants and sometimes also between vowels, but not in the word-initial position. In the latter case, the sound is not voiced and differs from /x/ in length (/ɣ/ is longer) and in that it is produced a little bit further front (mediovelar, rather than postvelar) and lacks any trilling, so that vlaggen /ˈvlɑɣən/ 'flags' has a ...
Post-velar and uvular variants are called harde g "hard g", while the post-palatal and velar variants are called zachte g "soft g". [9] There is also a third variant, called zwakke harde g "weak hard g", in which /ɣ/ is realised as [ ɦ ] and /x/ is realised as [ h ] and is used in Zeeland and West Flanders, which are h-dropping areas, so that ...
In Turkish, the ğ is known as yumuşak ge (pronounced [jumuˈʃak ˈɟe]; 'soft g') and is the ninth letter of the Turkish alphabet. It always follows a vowel, and can be compared to the blødt g ('soft g') in Danish. In modern Turkish, the letter has no sound of its own and serves as a transition between two vowels, since they do not occur ...
Eventually, both velar consonants /k/ and /ɡ/ developed palatalized allophones before front vowels; consequently in today's Romance languages, c and g have different sound values depending on context (known as hard and soft C and hard and soft G). Because of French influence, English language orthography shares this feature.
In dialects spoken above the rivers Rhine, Meuse and Waal the corresponding sound is a postvelar-uvular fricative trill . [8] See Dutch phonology and Hard and soft G in Dutch: Southern Netherlands accents [8] [9] English: Scottish: loch [ɫɔx] 'loch' Younger speakers may merge this sound with /k/. [10] [11] See Scottish English phonology ...
In English orthography, the letter k normally reflects the pronunciation of [] and the letter g normally is pronounced /ɡ/ or "hard" g , as in goose, gargoyle and game; /d͡ʒ/ or "soft" g , generally before i or e , as in giant, ginger and geology; or /ʒ/ in some words of French origin, such as rouge, beige and genre.
Sometimes at the beginning of a syllable, or after g and s , as w in wine, never as v in vine. VV [wɔ ~ wu] As one is pronounced in some English accents, but without the nasal sound: parvvs [ˈpɐr.wɔs], vivvnt [ˈwiː.wɔnt]. The spelling vu (parvus, vivunt) is post-classical, made in order to become regular in spelling. [51] [52]