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West Hokian
The West Hokian is the most prominent dialect of Hokian.


 * In West Hokian, often devoices and merges with ; the quality of that merged sound has been variously described as:
 * Voiceless post-velar fricative trill which, before, can be fronted to ;
 * Voiceless post-velar or uvular  fricative.
 * In the standard dialect, the distinction between and  is generally preserved as velar  or post-palatal . Some southern speakers may alternate between the velar and post-palatal articulation, depending on the backness of the preceding or succeeding vowel. Velar, post-velar and uvular variants are called harde g "hard g", while the post-palatal variants are called zachte g "soft g". There is also a third variant called zwakke harde g "weak hard g", in which  is realized as  and  is realized as  and is used in Zeeland and West Flanders, which are h-dropping areas, so that  does not merge with glottal variants of  and.