Re: labiodental approximant transliterated as V or W?

Ruud Harmsen wrote:
2 Dec 2006 08:00:15 -0800: "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx"
<ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

... in some variants of the language, and even then only in non-final
position (in medial position it varies).
http://rudhar.com/fonetics/fvw.htm

I can't tell your f and v apart.

The difference is voice. But admittedly, in some contexts, especially
initial, the difference is slight. Moreover, fricatives are hard to
record reliably.

An Englishman saying fear/ fail and vier/ vale would have a [v] that's
voiced sufficiently strongly to make the second pair clearly
distinguishable from the first. Your "[v]" sounds so much like [f] that
I'm hard put to tell which of them you're pronouncing.

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