Where would you hear "vever" instead of "beber"?
I'm not talking about the V turning into a B. I already know that. I'm talking about the B turning into a V. For instance, vever instead of beber, vor instead of por.
Whereabouts would you hear this phenomenon?
2 Answers
I have added comments on your partially deleted earlier question. Can you add your level of English and Spanish to your profile? I have been taught by Mexican and teachers from Spain to pronounce V and B like a B save between two vowels it is softened and may sound like a v though it is a soft B.
I said I thought on one of the occasions it has been asked someone may have said it is sometimes v in Chile. However, I do not have time to check through all the previous answers here.
This is a very comprehensive set of answers. It includes some thoughtful answers from Lazarus a hispanohablante from Southern Spain. Some English speaking members said they had heard it pronounced as a V.
Maybe someone will be able to confirm if there is a region where bs are pronounced as vs
I was taught that there is no labial plosive - B - nor a labio-dental fricative - V - in spoken Spanish and that the written B and V are rendered by the same sound, a (bi-)labial fricative.
What makes the difference is mostly the strength of the fricative element of the sound and, naturally, this changes according to location, age, gender and probably even the ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure.
FYI - labial means that the sound uses the lips, plosive that it comes out with a sort of a pop and fricative that there is a vibration involved I leave it to the reader as to the meaning of dental..
