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From: Dominic van Berkel <nazgjunk@gmail.com>
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To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dutch
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:17:05 +0200
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On Thursday 24 May 2007 22:02:45 m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> Good evening Hans (and all the others)!
>
> 1/ What is "finger" (part of the hand) in Dutch?
"vinger"

> 2/ Is it "Nederlands" (capital first letter as
>    in "English") or "nederlands" (small letter as in
>    "francais")?
Capitalised, so "Nederlands".

> 3/ Are there any accents or special letters in Dutch,
>    i.e. letters other than the 26 letters of the English
>    alphabet?
Yeah, but mostly in loanwords. A common one is any vowel with an umlaut, to 
point out that it should be pronounced separated from the preceding identical 
vowel. So, if I say "geëerd" (honoured), the first e is unvoiced (close to 
{y}), and the second and third e are pronounced together in a long sound, 
close to ay in "bay". What the exact sounds are depends on position in the 
word and other silly details.

Dominic 

>
> Cheers, Martin


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