Timeline for Why are there consonant clusters that are not uniformly voiced?
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| Nov 3, 2016 at 16:18 | comment | added | miĥaŭ | @MissDemeanor "kw" in Polish "akwedukt" is not uniformly voiced either. But in both languages we have a letter representing the sound /k/, followed by a letter represeting the sound /v/. | |
| Nov 3, 2016 at 16:12 | vote | accept | MissDemeanor | ||
| Nov 3, 2016 at 16:12 | comment | added | MissDemeanor | You say акведук is "kv", you are right. Though that word is a borrowing word, so in its situation not always uniformly voiced. It does seem fairest that akvo is used so more people could recognize it, I forget that Zamenhof wanted the one sound per letter. I am glad that if I happen to say agvo it will not make it hard to understand. | |
| Nov 3, 2016 at 11:11 | history | edited | Joffysloffy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
x-system conversion and typo fix.
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| Nov 3, 2016 at 11:04 | history | answered | miĥaŭ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |