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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.
Dutch is a West Germanic language with about 24 million speakers, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium. There are about 16 million Dutch speakers in the Netherlands, where it is the official language.
A prosodic contrast between Northern and Southern Dutch: a result of a Flemish-French sprachbund
Arguably the oldest topic in the study of Dutch phonology is the structure of the vowel system.1 The following depicts the vowels of Standard Dutch in a vowel triangle.2 (1) Next to the vowels depicted here, it is generally recognized that Dutch also has a contrastive schwa [@] and three diphthongs [Ei, œy, Au].3 The ques-
This chapter presents a selection of phenomena from different Romance languages, especially Ibero-Romance, that illustrate main interactions of segmental phonology with other parts of phonology, as well as with morphology and the lexicon.
Dutch pronunciation. The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Dutch pronunciations in Wiktionary entries. Similar to French faut eui l, no exact equivalent in English. Approximated as t ie with rounded lips, or h ow with fronted lips.
Dutch phonology is similar to that of other West Germanic languages, especially Afrikaans and West Frisian. This article includes a list of general references , but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations .
THE PHONOLOGY OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES GENERAL EDITOR: JACQUES DURAND The Phonology of Dutch Geert Booij The book admirably fulfils the goals of its series, The Phonology ofthe Wo
The Phonology of Dutch. In this, the first comprehensive survey of the phonological system of Dutch, Geert Booij lays particular stress on the relation between morphology, syntax, and prosodic...
The Phonology of Dutch. In this, the first comprehensive survey of the phonological system of Dutch, Geert Booij lays particular stress on the relation between morphology, syntax, and prosodic...