My three year old niece jumbled up the order of alphabets yet again while singing them. I giggled and corrected her but she wasn’t convinced. With a puzzled look, she asked me ‘Why?’
Voiced before unvoiced, tongue placement only gradually moving if possible.
Of course that’s very anglocentric because in most European languages j is pronounced like y, not like dzsh, so would go been y and w, and for example in German, z is pronounced ts, so should go the other side of s, next to d.
The alphabet should go in this order:
aeiou ywh vf bp mnlr zs jdt gqckx
Voiced before unvoiced, tongue placement only gradually moving if possible.
Of course that’s very anglocentric because in most European languages j is pronounced like y, not like dzsh, so would go been y and w, and for example in German, z is pronounced ts, so should go the other side of s, next to d.