Talk:Final obstruent devoicing

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[edit] Removed Modern Greek

There are no voiced final consonants in Modern Greek (except for foreign words), and such devoicing does not happen within words, so I am removing Greek from the list.

[edit] Where does this sentence belong?

"There are however some exceptions in very few words borrowed from English."

I can't say whether or not these exceptions occur in Afrikaans or Russian, etc. But there are certainly no such exceptions in German. It should be clarified what languages know exceptions in foreign words. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.52.167.158 (talk) 09:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

I second that and remove the sentence. If someone wants to reinsert it, please add some details, such as language, circumstances, examples etc. --Neg 19:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

In German, it varies a lot depending on the speaker. Younger Germans, especially those who know English well, do make an effort to suppress final devoicing when using English words like Job and Airbag in German. —Angr 21:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)