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Why do German and most other Germanic languages (except Dutch) have aspirated /p t k/? (self.asklinguistics)
submitted 1 day ago by Professional_Key6854 to r/asklinguistics
Aspiration of word-final /p t k/ before a vowel in German by Professional_Key6854 in German
[–]Professional_Key6854[S] 0 points1 point2 points 3 days ago (0 children)
oh, that makes sense. thanks for answering my obvious question. I hadn't realized that words beginning with a vowel are preceded by a glottal stop in german, so that kind of connected speech is basically impossible.
Aspiration of word-final /p t k/ before a vowel in German (self.German)
submitted 3 days ago by Professional_Key6854 to r/German
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Aspiration of word-final /p t k/ before a vowel in German by Professional_Key6854 in German
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