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Dutch phonology is similar to that of other West Germanic languages, especially Afrikaans and West Frisian. Standard Dutch has two main de facto pronunciation standards: Northern and Belgian. Northern Standard Dutch is the most prestigious accent in the Netherlands. It is associated with high status, education and wealth.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Dutch on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Dutch in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Dutch uses the digraph ij as a single letter and it can be seen in several variations. Here, a marking saying lijnbus ("line/route" + "bus"; the tram lane also serves as bus road). Dutch is written using the Latin script. Dutch uses one additional character beyond the standard alphabet, the digraph ij . It has a relatively high proportion of ...
Afrikaans merged Dutch fricatives ch and g to a single sound [χ], spelt g , except when preceded by s , in which case sk (pronounced as spelt) is used where Dutch uses sch (pronounced [sx], [sχ] or [sç]; hence "school" is school in Dutch but skool in Afrikaans, but Dutch misschien ("maybe") is written with ss , while Afrikaans miskien is ...
Final devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as German, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Catalan. [4] [page needed] Such languages have voiced obstruents in the syllable coda or at the end of a word become voiceless.
A phonological archaism of West Germanic is the preservation of grammatischer Wechsel in most verbs, particularly in Old High German. [31] This implies the same for West Germanic, [ 32 ] whereas in East and North Germanic many of these alternations (in Gothic almost all of them) had been levelled out analogically by the time of the earliest texts.
Final-obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as Catalan, German, Dutch, Quebec French, Breton, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Turkish, and Wolof. In such languages, voiced obstruents in final position (at the end of a word) become voiceless before voiceless consonants and in pausa.
IJ (lowercase ij; Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ; also encountered as Unicode compatibility characters IJ and ij) is a digraph of the letters i and j.Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or a letter in itself.