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Attribution. Official URL: http://depot.knaw.nl/9558 In all
Germanic languages, weakening or even deletion of r is possible.
In Frisian, r-deletion before consonants is even rather common.
Since about 1900, r-deletion in Frisian has often been discussed
in linguistic literature, but a complete picture of this
phenomenon is still lacking. The aim of this article is to
present a complete description of r-deletion in Frisian at the
end of morphemes in derivations as well as in compounds. Taking
as point of departure our own pronunciation of Frisian, we will
describe the realisation of r in different linguistic
environments: before inflectional and derivational suffixes, at
the end of prefixes and at the end of the first part of
compounds. Every individual realisation will be co