Talk:Dene Suline language

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[edit] "Velar" fricatives

I just followed the link to the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre. It leads to sound files. I'm a native speaker of southeastern German, which has a voiceless velar fricative; speakers of Alemannic dialects (Switzerland, Vorarlberg) use a uvular one instead, which is very distinctive. Thus, I trust my judgment that the "Dene" sound files marked hh and gh record uvular rather than velar fricatives.

(And then I'll have to contact the webmaster of that site. There is no gh in German, and very few German dialects have a voiced velar fricative, let alone a uvular one.) David Marjanović 22:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)