• FishFace@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Sorry bud, but in German it usually (though not always ill grant you) is pronounced /kv/ :) quark, quasseln, usw

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      1 day ago

      Oh dang you’re right, read your comment too quickly and mixed up v and w, lol

      What’s the difference between /kʷ/ and /kw/ though? Never seen that first notation

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        1 day ago

        The former is a labialised consonant, so the lips are brought close together, like to pronounce a /w/, but while saying a k. The general term is “secondary articulation”. I think the most famous of these, at least in European languages, is palatalisation.