[lojban-beginners] Re: Dutch

["Hans Isbrücker" <hisbrucker@gmail.com>]

Rarely used though in this case.

On 5/25/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Thursday 24 May 2007 16:17, Dominic van Berkel wrote:
> On Thursday 24 May 2007 22:02:45 m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> > 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.

There's also the acute accent, used to distinguish "één" (one) from "een"
(an).

phma