{"id":6404,"date":"2019-12-09T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2019-12-09T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:23:40","slug":"this-is-how-dutch-letters-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/this-is-how-dutch-letters-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Dutch Letters Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>alfabet <\/em>(alphabet) of a language is essential when you\u2019re learning it. When you try to make yourself understood, but you mispronounce a word, it is helpful to be able to spell the word out \u2013 and knowing what the alphabet looks and sounds like is quite helpful! So here is a list of all letters in the Dutch language and their pronunciation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The <em>alfabet<\/em> song and all the letters!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Het ABC Alfabet liedje leren in het Nederlands\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkdxfd2mhS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The song above is made for\u00a0<em>kinderen\u00a0<\/em>(children) in the Netherlands to learn the\u00a0<em>alfabet.\u00a0<\/em>It is very helpful to remember how the <i>alfabet <\/i>goes, and I have to admit, I am sometimes still singing parts of it in my head to remember the exact order of letters. If you just want each individual letter, here it goes!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"640\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Aa.mp3'>Aa<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Bb.mp3'>Bb<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Cc.mp3'>Cc<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Dd.mp3'>Dd<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Ee.mp3'>Ee<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Ff.mp3'>Ff<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Gg.mp3'>Gg<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Hh.mp3'>Hh<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Ii.mp3'>Ii<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Jj.mp3'>Jj<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Kk.mp3'>Kk<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Ll.mp3'>Ll<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Mm.mp3'>Mm<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Nn.mp3'>Nn<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Oo.mp3'>Oo<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Pp.mp3'>Pp<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Qq.mp3'>Qq<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Rr.mp3'>Rr<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Ss.mp3'>Ss<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Tt.mp3'>Tt<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Uu.mp3'>Uu<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Vv.mp3'>Vv<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Ww.mp3'>Ww<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Xx.mp3'>Xx<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Yy.mp3'>Yy<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Zz.mp3'>Zz<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Aa.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Aa\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"Aa\\\". 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Genre: Other.\",\"meta\":{\"genre\":\"Other\",\"length_formatted\":\"0:03\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p>Can you say all the letters?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What&#8217;s going on with the <em>y<\/em>?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_6432\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch.png\" aria-label=\"Y Ij Pronunciation Letter Dutch 1024x446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6432\" class=\"wp-image-6432 size-large\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"446\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-1024x446.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-350x152.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-768x335.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch.png 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by author<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Perhaps you noticed, the Y gets a bit of a weird pronunciation sometimes. It is often called <em>i-grec<\/em><strong>,<\/strong> referring to the greek origin of the letter. Calling it <em>ij<\/em>, like they do in the song (and I do in the first version of <em>y<\/em>) is technically incorrect.\u00a0That sound belongs to <em>ij<\/em>, the letter combination, or <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/tweeklanken-2-ie-ieuw-ijei\/\">tweeklank<\/a><\/em>, that was originally written as <em>y<\/em>. However, the\u00a0<em>ij<\/em> is not part of the Dutch <em>alfabet<\/em>, just like the other <em>tweeklanken <\/em>aren\u2019t. It is therefore clear that in the <em>alfabet<\/em>, you are referring to <em>y<\/em>, not <em>ij<\/em>. So in context it is fine, In\u00a0<em>wiskunde\u00a0<\/em>(maths), you also say\u00a0<em>y-as\u00a0<\/em>like\u00a0<em>ij-as<\/em> and\u00a0<em>x-as<\/em>. Or\u00a0<em>Y-chromosoom\u00a0<\/em>(Y-chromosome) in\u00a0<em>biologie\u00a0<\/em>(biology).<\/p>\n<p>Even though it does not count as a letter in the alphabet, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/can-you-say-this-correctly-5-fair-trade-basmatirijst\/\"><em>ij <\/em>must be capitalized<\/a> at the beginning of sentences, like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>IJzer is minder sterk dan staal<\/em> (Iron is less strong than steel).<\/p>\n<p>So, Dutch has that <em>ij<\/em>, but it is not part of the alphabet. So you will simply find it in dictionaries etc. after the\u00a0<em>i<\/em>. However, sometimes, it is bundled with the <em>y<\/em>. Why? Well, that&#8217;s because history. There was a time when the <em>ij<\/em> was written as <em>y<\/em>.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_6404\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_6404-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_6404-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Some place names: <em>Ysselsteyn <\/em>and <em>IJsselstein<\/em> are two different places, even though they sound the same!<\/span> The <em>y <\/em>also served to make <em>tweeklanken <\/em>instead of the <em>i.<\/em><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_6404\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_6404-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_6404-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\">An example of this is the name of one of the greatest admirals in Dutch history, Michiel de Ruyter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But because of all this, the <em>y <\/em>is sometimes called <em>Griekse ij <\/em>(Greek <em>ij<\/em>). Less common, but still understood is the Greek word for the letter, <em>ypsilon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you have to differentiate, always like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hoe heet hij? IJsbrand, toch?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<em>Ja, IJ-S-B-R-A-N-D.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Met een gewone of een Griekse ij?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Met de gewone ij<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(What&#8217;s his name? IJsbrand, right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yes, IJ-S-B-R-A-N-D.<\/p>\n<p>With a normal or Greek y?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A normal y.)<\/p>\n<p>You see in the example above, in spelling, especially where the\u00a0<em>y\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>ij\u00a0<\/em>sound the same, make clear which one you mean! Of course, a word like\u00a0<em>baby\u00a0<\/em>doesn&#8217;t need that, because here the\u00a0<em>y\u00a0<\/em>sounds like an\u00a0<em>ie\u00a0<\/em>in Dutch &#8211; there is no confusion about its spelling when you\u00a0<em>spellen\u00a0<\/em>(to spell) the word!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any questions? Let me know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"modern-footnotes-list modern-footnotes-list--show-only-for-print\"><li><span>1<\/span><div>Some place names: <em>Ysselsteyn <\/em>and <em>IJsselstein<\/em> are two different places, even though they sound the same!<\/div><\/li><li><span>2<\/span><div>An example of this is the name of one of the greatest admirals in Dutch history, Michiel de Ruyter.<\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-350x152.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-350x152.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch-768x335.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/y-ij-pronunciation-letter-dutch.png 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>The alfabet (alphabet) of a language is essential when you\u2019re learning it. When you try to make yourself understood, but you mispronounce a word, it is helpful to be able to spell the word out \u2013 and knowing what the alphabet looks and sounds like is quite helpful! 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