Pronounciation of the digraph <OU>
- [ow] - Spanish (very rarely), Northern European Portuguese and formal register of Brazilian Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Finnish, Karelian, Estonian, Sami languages.
- [o] - Portuguese (European, and informal Brazilian)
- [ɔw] - Somali, Occitan, Catalan and Flemish.
- [əw] - Afrikaans, Europen Portuguese (Oporto city region).
- [aw] - Dutch.
- [u] - French (also for /w/), Breton, Cornish, and Greek, shown here for comparison althoug it is more precisely <ου> (o+ipsilon).
- [aʊ, ʌ, oʊ/əʊ, ʊ, u:] - English as in <out>, <trouble>, <soul>, <could> and <group>, respectively.
Maybe I missed a few languages that use <ou>; if you know any more, point them out, please.
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:51:40