Re: Icelandic language (was Re: World Pidgin Suffices)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 11:47 |
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At 18:59 20.6.2000 +0000, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>However...
>I refuse to go out of my way to write edh; the thing is, [D] is not a
>phoneme in Icelandic, but merely an allophone of /d/.
Rather a case of neutralized opposition between /T/ and /d/, IMHO. The
Interesting thing is that there *is* a /v/ phoneme, but all of /v/f/b/ get
neutralized to [v] under like conditions as /T/d/ are neutralized to
[D]. The [Q] sound in words like da[g]ur is also a neutralization of /h/g/
-- /h/ also has a [x] allophone in some peoples pronunciation of "hv".
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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