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I don't know where the - sh sound arose in nebbish, but in all eastern European dialects of Yiddish the word is nebbikh or nebbakh, with a velar fricative sound that is rendered as - sh by speakers who find that easier to pronounce.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
The chief difficulties are with vowel signs, but consonants present some problems too; for example, both ch and gh occur for the sound at the end of loch, the velar fricative.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
Technically, F is an unvoiced labiodental fricative.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
This to avoid confusion with the voiced alveolar fricative, the sound of "z" in the English word "zoo", for which German always uses the letter "s".— Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
It is used for occurrences of the voiceless alveolar fricative, the sound of the "s" in the English word "sea", after long vowels and diphthongs, for which German otherwise uses "s" or "ss".— Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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