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Re: Two seperate questions: Rhoticity/Topic-Comment

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Monday, December 11, 2006, 8:04
* Andreas Johansson said on 2006-12-11 01:07:25 +0100
> Quoting taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>: > > [..], the r and the following consonant fuse into a retroflex in > > some dialects (including mine), meaning some Norwegian and Swedish > > dialects have a full series of retroflex consonants. Neat, huh? > > "Some" dialects is rather an understatement - it's a feature of > rikssvenska, and of the speech of I'd think most Swedes.
Ah, but not in Norwegian it only happens in the eastern dialects. Anyway, Norwegian doesn't have an official spoken form: "talk dialect, write nynorsk" and all that. t.