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Re: Swedish Chinese

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, February 2, 2004, 12:09
At 11:44 2.2.2004, Tristan McLeay wrote:

>It has been mentioned in jest that Swedish is really a dialect of Chinese >masquerading as a Germanic language... What is the basis for all of this? >I think one point was some dialects pronouncing /i/ as [z]..?
That, and the lexical tones. NB that while in Chinese it is the syllable which carries the tone in SE/NO it is the lexical word. BTW those very same dialects who have [z=] for long /i/ have [z_O=] for long /y/ and [z_w=] for long /8/! :) /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>