[PLUG-TALK] Pronouncing 'v' in Spanish
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Dec 1 21:55:03 UTC 2020
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> More than once I have been asked why the letter 'v' is pronounced as a
> [b] in Spanish, and I finally decided to write down the explanation.
In Hebrew, a medial 'b' sound (that is, the letter beth found in the
middle of a word) typically is sounded 'v'; so 'abi' ("my father") is
usually pronounced "avi." My understanding is that the same is true in
Arabic, where "Ibrahim" is pronounced "Ivrahim."
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Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
45°38' N, 122°6' W
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