Re: Two seperate questions: Rhoticity/Topic-Comment
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 11, 2006, 8:04 |
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* 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?
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> "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.