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Re: Swedish Chinese

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 11:47
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:


> _Att, av, och_ all used to be /o/, _till_ used to be /ti/ or /te/, > _vid_ (prep.) /ve/ etc.
With the exception of _av_=/o/ and _till_=/ti/, I have all of those in informal speech, while the spelling pronuciations rear their heads in higher registers. I also have a set of cliticized object pronouns, so written _till honom_ "to him" may come out as [ten]. Historically, tho, that [-n] is from a reduced form of _han_ "him (acc)" rather than form _honom_ "he" (originally dat, IIRC). Andreas