Re: Swedish Chinese
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 2, 2004, 12:09 |
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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^)
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