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  2.11 The phoneme 'gn'

Gn' is always pronounced as 'ny' in the word canyon o like the ñ in the Spanish word 'niño' (child). Linguists call this sound n mouillé.

The right spelling therfore ist
gnomo = dwarf
and not
gnomo = dwarf

In the IPA phonetic transcription these sound it represented by this sign
gnomo = dwarf






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