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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").
Ğ (g with breve; minuscule: ğ) is a Latin letter found in the Turkish and Azerbaijani alphabets as well as the Latin alphabets of Zazaki, Laz, Crimean Tatar, Tatar, and Kazakh. It traditionally represented the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/ or the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/ .
Steve Wilhite's slide at the 2013 Webby Awards. The pronunciation of GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, has been disputed since the 1990s.Popularly rendered in English as a one-syllable word, the acronym is most commonly pronounced / ɡ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a hard g as in gift) or / dʒ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a soft g as in gem), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G.
Most Romance languages and some Nordic languages also have two main pronunciations for g , hard and soft. While the soft value of g varies in different Romance languages (/ʒ/ in French and Portuguese, [(d)ʒ] in Catalan, /d͡ʒ/ in Italian and Romanian, and /x/ in most dialects of Spanish), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft g has the ...
Southern European Spanish (Andalusian Spanish, Murcian Spanish, etc.) and several lowland dialects in Latin America (such as those from the Caribbean, Panama, and the Atlantic coast of Colombia) exhibit more extreme forms of simplification of coda consonants: word-final dropping of /s/ (e.g. compás [komˈpa] 'musical beat' or 'compass')
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Allophone of /d/ before /i, ĩ/ (including when the vowel is elided) and other instances of [i] (e.g. epenthesis), marginal sound otherwise. Most dialects: jambalaya [d͡ʒɐ̃bɐˈlajɐ] 'jambalaya' In free variation with /ʒ/ in a few recent loanwords. See Portuguese phonology: Romanian: ger [ˈd͡ʒɛ̝r] 'frost' See Romanian phonology ...
The g in Adagio may be realized as /ʒ/, even though the soft g of Italian represents an affricate . [ 2 ] The name of the principal male character in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is spelled Petruchio , intended to be the Italian name Petruccio [peˈtruttʃo] , reflecting more conventional English pronunciation rules that use ch to ...