Talk:Leipzig

The pronounciation file is not correct. The "-ig" at the end shoud be spoken like "-ich". This one is better: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leipzig.ogg --92.78.23.153 11:26, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

It is not true that the file currently used is "not correct"; on the contrary: It reflects the usual standard German pronunciation of Leipzig. The regional Saxonian dialect uses a somewhat different pronunciation. The file linked above is noticeably spoken by a Saxonian. -- Gauss 13:10, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

The pronunciation "Leipzik" certainly doesn't reflect the "usual" standard German pronunciation, which is "-ich", as the user said. Descriptively speaking there can be not question about that. I also would've thought that "-ich" was the prescription, but that depends on whether the user here below can provide a source for their claim to the contrary, namely that proper nouns are treated differently from common nouns. 178.4.151.167 00:51, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

The controversial pronunciation of -ig

Again, the pronunciation ending with /ɪç/ is not the prescribed standard. Duden and Siebs prescribed /ɪk/ for proper names, which was their exception to the fricative rule. Siebs went further by prescribing /ɪk/ if there was a need to distinguish words ending with -ig from -ich which would otherwise sound exactly the same.

• Keep in mind that when speaking casually, the northerners and the locals of the city are inclined to use the fricative pronunciation, and the southerners would use the plosive for all cases, proper names or other words.
• Neither pronunciation should be considered non-standard, because the suffix is pronounced as either by native academics and teachers!

--Mahmudmasri (talk) 10:59, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Native academics and teachers might use any pronunciation, from pedantic to dialectal. I'm a native academic, so does that make all my pronunciations standard? Obviously not. (Like a lot of educated people in the northern half, I pronounce pretty much all syllable final g's as fricative, not just in -ig.) What Siebs said is also not relevant anymore. But if you claim that the Duden standard would be /ɪk/ for this word, then this would very much surprise me. The only exceptions that I'm aware of are words in -iglich and the word Königreich. Can you source that? 178.4.151.167 00:38, 28 March 2020 (UTC)