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West Hokian

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The West Hokian is the most prominent dialect of Hokian.

sasa ('cart') satha ('branch')
distinción /ˈsasa/ /ˈsaθa/
ceceo /ˈsas̟a/
seseo /ˈsasa/
  • In West Hokian, /ɣ/ often devoices and merges with /x/; the quality of that merged sound has been variously described as:
    • Voiceless post-velar fricative trill [ʀ̝̊˖] which, before /j/, can be fronted to [ç];[1]
    • Voiceless post-velar [] or uvular [χ] fricative.
  • In the standard dialect, the distinction between /x/ and /ɣ/ is generally preserved as velar [x, ɣ] or post-palatal [, ɣ˖]. Some southern speakers may alternate between the velar and post-palatal articulation, depending on the backness of the preceding or succeeding vowel. Velar, post-velar and uvular variants are called harde g "hard g", while the post-palatal variants are called zachte g "soft g". There is also a third variant called zwakke harde g "weak hard g", in which /ɣ/ is realized as [ɦ] and /x/ is realized as [h] and is used in Zeeland and West Flanders, which are h-dropping areas, so that /ɦ/ does not merge with glottal variants of /ɣ/ and /x/.
  1. ^ . The source says that the main allophone of this sound is a fricative with a "very energetic articulation with considerable scrapiness", i.e. a fricative trill.