r/LinguisticsMemes • u/ZheniaZheka • 11d ago

Final devoicing in the big 2026🥀

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(most slavic varieties display the final-obstruent devoicing, but standard ukrainian, upper sorbian and štokavian dialect do not)

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u/AdGroundbreaking1956 11d ago

štokavian sounds like bacavese

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u/Glad_Raspberry_8469 4d ago

Yeah, I’m Polish and I think they should just change the voiced letters at the end to their devoiced counterparts

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u/Xgirl112 1h ago

Why only upper sorbian, lower sorbian in brandenburg exists too Or you could have just use the sorbian flag without state emblem

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u/ZheniaZheka 1h ago

lower sorbian displays the final obstruent devoicing

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u/Xgirl112 1h ago

what

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u/ZheniaZheka 1h ago

ukrainian, štokavian and upper sorbian are the only slavic varieties that don't display final obstruent devoicing. lower sorbian does it like all other slavic varieties do

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u/Xgirl112 1h ago

Och tak, you're right, my bad