Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

Lars Mathiesen wrote:
> > From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
> >
> > I can't find it now, but I saw a pretty scary Danish example of the
>later. I
> > shan't swear to the exact forms, but something like this: the modern
> > prescriptive forms _muje_ and _fo/de_ ("o/"=o-slash) are different
>dialects'
> > treatments of originals similar to modern Swedish _möda_ och _föda_
> > ("ö"=o-umlaut).
>
>The words are møje /mQj@/ "tiresome work" og føde /f2D@/ "food". I'm
>away from relevant books, but I'd guess that the former is a Jutish
>dialect form.
Thanks for the details.

>(The standard also has mødig /m2DI/ "tired," but that
>may be a swedicism).
Mine dialect, at least, doesn't have any such adjective, and neither does my
dictionary list any similar form. So I would guess it isn't.

>(/D/ is a non-sibilant alveolar fricative. X-SAMPA [D_-], perhaps ---
>I don't think it's [D_a] or [D_m]. In fact, with the IPA, how is one
>supposed to mark an alveolar stop in close transcription?)
Do you mean "alveolar fricative"? If so, I don't know. Alveolar stops are
[t] or [d] - their default PoA is alveolar according to my IPA chart. In
close transcription they should get a diacritic when representing dentals.

                                                           Andreas

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