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The Dutch vowels (FULL)

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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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12 Oct 2012 01:10 PM
Yeah, let's now get all the vowels down. I am not gonna tell you how to pronounce that, as it could differ for people, but I am just gonna show you wich there are and how I'd write their transliterations.

Short vowels:
a / à
e / è
i / ì
o / ò
u / ù

Long vowels:
aa / á
ee / é
ie / í
oo / ó
uu / ú

Special-vowels:
au / au
ou / ou (pronounced the same as the au)

Eu / êû OR ø

ei / ei
ij / ij (pronounced the same as the ei)

oor / ôr OR òr (Basicly a short-o (ò) with a r)
(this does not count for other double-vowels + r (the above sentence)).

Aai / âî OR æ

Accented vowels:
ê, as in ênquete, pronounced as the English word "an" (the ên part) or "en" in Dutch. (the ê is almost always used in French words that are imported to Dutch (like: crêpe), Frysian uses it regularly, so does Afrikaans, other Dutch dialects might also use it regularly).
â (VERY VERY VERY uncommon): just like à or á.
(circumflex accent)

ä, ï, ö, ë, ÿ - The Diaeresis or Umlaut (¨) is to seperate two vowel sounds wich without it would be one vowel sound:
Kopiëren "Kópí'èrèn", not "Kópírèn".

We also use the accent grave and acute:
hè, hé.
Both are pronounced as they are written.
Hè doesn't mean anything, but it could be translated as "huh".
Hé doesn't mean anything either, but could be translated as "hey".

A special case:
The Y is a very special letter, it can either be a constant and be pronounced as a j or be pronounced like an i(e). Most of the times, it's just an i(e).

The a has 4 different pronounciations; long, short, English and another one I can't think of atm.

I hope I didn't miss anything this time. Have fun! ;3

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sinii is not online. sinii
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13 Oct 2012 09:52 AM
That's too much. It's like English: not a very phonetic language??
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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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13 Oct 2012 11:50 AM
What?
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sinii is not online. sinii
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13 Oct 2012 12:07 PM
You combine any vowel with another random vowel, and it's an entirely new sound unrelated to the vowels chosen. That's not very phonetic/
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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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13 Oct 2012 12:15 PM
Well, these exist in our language. Note that everything behind the slash (/) is a transliteration/explanation/stuff/idk.
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shafai5000 is not online. shafai5000
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13 Oct 2012 01:42 PM
Ya the dutch words... I know french HA
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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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13 Oct 2012 01:43 PM
^Trying to impress me or something else?
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