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The German language normally uses f to indicate the sound /f/ (as used in the English word fight) and w to indicate the sound /v/ (as in victory). However, v does occur in a large number of German words, where its pronunciation is /f/ in some words but /v/ in others.
For further information, see Pronunciation of v in German. w : The letter w represents the sound /v/. In the 17th century, the former sound became , but the spelling remained the same. An analogous sound change had happened in late-antique Latin. z : The letter z represents the sound /t͡s/.
The letter q in German only ever appears in the sequence qu (/kv/), with the exception of loanwords, e.g., Coq au vin or Qigong (which is also written Chigong). The letter x (Ix, /ɪks/) occurs almost exclusively in loanwords. Native German words that are now pronounced with a /ks/ sound are usually written using chs or cks, as with Fuchs (fox).
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is v , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v. The sound is similar to voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in that it is familiar to most European speakers [citation needed] but is a fairly uncommon sound cross-linguistically, occurring in approximately 21.1% of languages. [1]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Standard German on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Standard German in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
U u : Latin letter u , originally the same letter as v W w : Latin letter w , descended from u Ỽ ỽ : Middle Welsh v v with diacritics: Ṽ ṽ Ṿ ṿ Ʋ ʋ ᶌ [9] IPA-specific symbols related to v : ⱱ ʋ ᶹ : Modifier letter small v with hook is used in phonetic transcription [9] 𐞰 : Modifier letter small v with right hook is a ...
German and Austrian speakers tend to be variably rhotic when using English loanwords. [citation needed] English /w/ is often replaced with German /v/ e.g. Whisk(e)y [ˈvɪskiː]. word-initial /s/ is often retained (especially in the South, where word-initial /s/ is common), [126] but many speakers replace it with /z/ e.g. Sound [zaʊ̯nt].
It is something between an English /w/ and /v/, pronounced with the teeth and lips held in the position used to articulate the letter V. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʋ , a letter v with a leftward hook protruding from the upper right of the letter, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is P or v\.