Re: Swedish Chinese
| From: | Pavel Iosad <edricson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 2, 2004, 19:06 |
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Hello,
> In addition there's supposed to be a Chinese 2nd person
> pronoun sounding much
> like Swedish _ni_ "you" (pl and, obsoletishly, polite sg).
> Any sinophone to remind me of the details?
Yep, ni2, 'you (sg.)'. Also ni2men 'you (pl.)'.
> demerged /l/ and /rl/ (used both to be [l_d] -
> now [l_d] and [l`]). The later rather annoys me - dead
> distinctions should stay dead!
Really dead? I think our Swedish teacher (the one from Sweden, I mean)
hasn't merged them. She's from Uppsala.
Pavel
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Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru
Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth
--Welsh saying
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