Talk:Upper Sorbian phonology

Šewc-Schuster (1984)

Mine that source if you speak Upper Sorbian - it covers more than this article, e.g. stress, intonation, dialectical variation, maybe more. Note that there's also Grammar of the Upper Sorbian language: phonology and morphology by the same author. It's 12 years younger than the Upper Sorbian version. If it contains the same information, it'd be more than appropriate to replace all citations from the 1984 Upper Sorbian version with the 1996 English version. If you do replace the citations on this page, please do the same on Upper Sorbian language and Lower Sorbian language. Peter238 (talk) 06:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The letter "r"

Maybe this was a voiced uvular trill for a while (i.e. in the first stage of the development from an alveolar to a uvular rhotic), and maybe it still is for a minority of speakers, but the normal pronunciation certainly is a voiced uvular fricative or approximant (as in German). And just like in the German accent of Saxony, it tends to become a weakly articulated voiced pharyngeal approximant or a simple pharyngealisation of the preceding vowel when in the syllable coda. Such that serbski ("Sorbian") is [sɛʁpski] or [sɛˁpski]. 2.202.159.91 (talk) 18:10, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Generally, a comparison between Upper Sorbian on the one hand and Upper Saxon German on the other would be interesting. To every German who listens to Sorbian, it sounds markedly Saxon. Like someone with a heavy Saxon accent trying to speak Slavic, really. 2.202.159.91 (talk) 19:07, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]