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It seems like a difficult language to learn (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Btw, there's a mising phonetic letter in Swiss German, somewhere between ä and ö, kind of a aeo. But since it's rarely written dialekt (personal chats), we work around this with Umlauts and context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Õ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh right, french might have them. Soft 'o', right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Estonian actually. I'm having a hard time thinking of an English word for an example. I guess I'd write bone phonetically as bõun? Or own as õun as well. With the u in our language sounding much like u in bauen or rauchen in German if I'm pronouncing those right.