• hikaru755@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Oh dang you’re right, read your comment too quickly and mixed up v and w, lol

    What’s the difference between /kʷ/ and /kw/ though? Never seen that first notation

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      2 days ago

      The former is a labialised consonant, so the lips are brought close together, like to pronounce a /w/, but while saying a k. The general term is “secondary articulation”. I think the most famous of these, at least in European languages, is palatalisation.