Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/.
I can confirm this as native speaker :3
Yes, Latin qu was pronounced /kʷ/, which became straight /kw/ in English. I don’t know which it was in Old French. Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 days ago
hikaru755@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Same in German
FishFace@piefed.social 5 days ago
Sorry bud, but in German it usually (though not always ill grant you) is pronounced /kv/ :) quark, quasseln, usw
hikaru755@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh dang you’re right, read your comment too quickly and mixed up v and w, lol
What’s the difference between /kʷ/ and /kw/ though? Never seen that first notation
FishFace@piefed.social 5 days ago
The former is a labialised consonant, so the lips are brought close together, like to pronounce a /w/, but while saying a k. The general term is “secondary articulation”. I think the most famous of these, at least in European languages, is palatalisation.