pathetic piss kitten (@kitten)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

wait

do we have hard G sound in Catalan?

Lis (≙) retired account @lis@luisa.is

5mo

@kitten like in Granollers?

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

@lis but that's still more like, "guepardo" sound

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

@lis you know, we have that g, and the g that is more like the "Spanish ch" (depending on the accent). but not a Spanish "general" g sound

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

5mo

@kitten @lis "general" is the J sound, which when followed by E or I is (in only some cases!) written instead as G

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

@mildsunrise @lis but it's not present in Catalan!

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

5mo

@kitten @lis yes, i actually can't think rn of any other European languages that have it, maybe basque?

Lis (≙) retired account @lis@luisa.is

5mo

@mildsunrise @kitten the sound exists in German in some cases of “ch” (“machen”), as well as in Russian (х) and many other Slavic languages. It’s usually seen more as a derivative of the letter H in some way though

Lis (≙) retired account @lis@luisa.is

5mo

@mildsunrise @kitten and of course there is Dutch that also uses a similar g sound

Lis (≙) retired account @lis@luisa.is

5mo

@mildsunrise @kitten (the hard and soft g thing there is a whole different story though)

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

5mo

@lis @kitten oh right, german and dutch

my memory is certainly not working today

Gwen Fawn

@aldaan@tech.lgbt

5mo

@mildsunrise @kitten @lis If I'm thinking about the same phoneme, hungarian has it as one of the allophones denoted by "h".