Pronunciation Explanation
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- The grapheme “v” could be pronounced as stop bilabial voiced /b/ or voiced bilabial fricative [β], DEPENDING ON POSITION: word initial or after consonant /b/.
- If in your passage, do not forget to comment on pronunciation of “ge, gi”, “ja,e,i,o,u”.
- /ʎ/ delateralized in most varieties into /j/ for graphemes as “y+vowel” and “ll”.
- The affricates /ts/ ç was simplified to laminodental fricatives /z/ and in some variations it is pronounced as /θ/
- Voiced alveolar affricate /dz/: represented by ⟨z⟩
- In old spanish two “s” between vowels = /s/ as in English “hiss”
- The alveolar trill ⟨r⟩ is present in old spanish and modern spanish however the representation in the grapheme becomes r in modern spanish.