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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ufnkex" <spamstorage@...> wrote:

>
> In (all) German (dialects) P, T, K / B, D, G are interchangeable,
> i.e. no strict rules. Hence teutsch/deutsch, Tal/Dahl, Berger/Perger,
> Bayr/Payr & the like; hence the Austrian-South-German spelling -egg-
> for -eck- (Schwarzenegger as variety for Schwarzenecker); hence the
> pronunciation [flakke] for Flagge by most Germans.
>

This is typical of languages where stops aren't contrastive in voice,
but rather in *tenseness*. Martinet, in his classical work "Economie des
changements phonétiques" (1955) describes the Danish stop system as
an example of such a system.