From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 41453
Date: 2005-10-16
>The information on Sorbian pronunciation onBut cf. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/7636
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_alphabet is highly incomplete (however,
>[w] for the Lower Sorbian <w> is mentioned there). My page on Sorbian
>(http://www.aries.com.pl/grzegorzj/gram/unipl/luzyc.html) is available only
>in Polish as for now (however some information may be understood). I have
>based myself on a book in German and informations from a scholar
>specializing in Sorbian and a Sorbian speaker at the same time.
>
>The Upper Sorbian <w> is also [w], at least in some positions, not [v] like
>Wikipedia says, cf. "w und l sind wie englisches w zu sprechen, also wie u
>in sauer" from the Upper Sorbian online course (in German):
>http://sibz.whyi.org/~edi/wucbnica/1.lekcija.html.
>You are fully right, and that is why I wrote "I mean the standard version".No. In the standard languages, <w> is a labiodental
>I was also interested in this problem, and just asked some native Dutch
>speakers what they think. Basing on what they said I can present the thing
>this way now: the pronunciation of (initial) <w> as the labio-dental
>approximant is recommended by some courses and dictionaries (including these
>I have) but is spread only in some dialects, especially those from the
>southern part of the Dutch language area.