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In English orthography, the pronunciation of hard g is /ɡ/ and that of soft g is /dʒ/; the French soft g , /ʒ/, survives in a number of French loanwords (e.g. regime, genre), [ʒ] also sometimes occurs as an allophone of [dʒ] in some accents in certain words.
Capital yogh (left), lowercase yogh (right) In Modern English yogh is pronounced / j ɒ ɡ /, / j ɒ x / using short o [2] or / j oʊ ɡ /, / j oʊ k /, / j oʊ x /, using long o. [3]It stood for / ɡ / and its various allophones—including [ɡ] and the voiced velar fricative [ɣ] —as well as the phoneme / j / ( y in modern English orthography).
The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are j\_o_-and G_o_+. Especially in broad transcription, the post-palatal approximant may be transcribed as a palatalized velar approximant ( ɰʲ , ɣ̞ʲ or ɣ˕ʲ in the IPA, M\', M\_j, G'_o or G_o_j in X-SAMPA). A voiced alveolar-palatal approximant is attested as phonemic in the Huastec language.
The palatal consonants [tʃ, dʒ, j, ʃ] were represented in Old English spelling with the same letters as velar consonants or clusters [k, ɡ, ɣ, sk]: c represented either palatal [tʃ] or velar [k]. g represented either palatal [j] or velar [ɣ]. After the letter n , it usually represented palatal [dʒ] or velar [ɡ].
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
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 .
Ǧ/ǧ (G with caron, Unicode code points U+01E6 and U+01E7) is a letter used in several Latin orthographies. [1] In the Romany and Skolt Sami languages, it represents the palatalized g [ɟ͡ʝ]. It has also been used in Czech (and Slovak) orthographies until the middle of the 19th century to represent the consonant /ɡ/, whereas "g" stood for /j/.
The phrase zachte G 'soft G' is pronounced [ˈzɑxtə ˈʝeː] in Southern Dutch, whereas the Northern pronunciation is [ˈzɑχtə ˈχei]. The Ripuarian-influenced Standard Dutch pronunciation is [ˈzɑχtə ˈʝeː], that of vlaggen is [ˈvlɑʁə(n)] (as if spelled vlarren), whereas that of lachen is [ˈlɑχə(n)].