Норвежцы

How is -жц- pronounced in Норвежцы?

нор - веш - тсы. There's no -жц- there as you see.

A way to pronounce it:

Ц is a voicless consonant (a combination of two voicless sounds Т and С). Ж therefore devoices to it's voicless counterpart Ш.

Норвежцы is pronounced like: V - I - K - I - N - G - S

Yep, thanks! Assimilation! :)

But из чего is pronounced like "ищщево". Right?

Yes! :)

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Originally Posted by jz12

But из чего is pronounced like "ищщево". Right?

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Technically you can pronounce it like из чево, исчево, ищщево.

the combinations ши,ци,жи are pronounced шы,цы,жы since the consonants are inherently hard, but щи,чи are pronounced щи,чи since they are inherently soft.

хороший like "хорошый"
старший like "старшый".

Right?

Yes, right.

Я произношу "исчиво"

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Originally Posted by Vadim84

Я произношу "исчиво"

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Я в принципе тоже, но "ищщиво" тоже можно (типа московское произношение).

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Originally Posted by jz12

the combinations ши,ци,жи are pronounced шы,цы,жы since the consonants are inherently hard, but щи,чи are pronounced щи,чи since they are inherently soft.

хороший like "хорошый"
старший like "старшый".

Right?

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Yes. The confusing thing is you cannot WRITE Ы after Ш and Ж, you have to write И, but the И is pronounced Ы.

E.g. Живу is pronounced Жыву, but writing a Ы after Ж is not allowed.

Also since they are inherently soft, -ча- is pronounced like -чя-, -ща- is pronounced like -щя-.