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Hard and soft G

In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages, the letter ⟨g⟩ is used in different contexts to represent two distinct phonemes that in English are called hard and soft ⟨g⟩. The sound of a hard ⟨g⟩ (which often precedes the non-front vowels ⟨a o u⟩ or a consonant) is usually the voiced velar plosive (as in gain or go) while the sound of a…

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Hard and soft G

Nodes87
Edges86
Triples10
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022989
Components1

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Hard and soft G

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related to Dutch · 4
Hard and soft G → Dutch, In Dutch, Northern, Southern

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soft hard pronunciation orthography words silent also english languages french letter sound italian portuguese dʒ digraph spanish pronounced indicate may

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Gennainstance ofspellings0.80text
Gennifer.Letter combinationsEnglish has many words of Romance origininstance ofspellings0.80text
especially from Frenchinstance ofspellings0.80text
Italianinstance ofspellings0.80text
Genniferinstance ofspellings0.80text
Ladinoinstance ofexcept a few that have undergone spelling reforms0.80text
Hard and soft Grelated to DutchIn Dutch0.60section
Hard and soft Grelated to DutchDutch0.60section
Hard and soft Grelated to DutchNorthern0.60section
Hard and soft Grelated to DutchSouthern0.60section

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