Re: retroflex consonants

Julia "Schnecki" Simon skrev:
[snip]

> <slaps forehead> Of course! Swedish! I remember giving retroflexes as
> one of my reasons back when I started learning Swedish ("But they
> have *retroflexes*! So it's not just another Germanic language, of
> which I already know a few, but something strange and wondrous and
> exotic, and well worth my time!"). In the meantime, however, they've
> slipped my mind almost completely, since we don't do retroflexes in
> the local dialects here in southern Finland. (We don't do uvular /R/s
> either, so we must be a rare exception in the Swedish-speaking world,
> with our apical /r/ or /*/ and complete lack of retroflexes...)
It's not so much a matter of Finland Swedish being a "rare" exception
as us Kingdom Swedes sometimes forgetting those Swedes on the other
side of the Bothnic Sea.  Förlåt!  Of course *you*, as so often
preserve the ancient state of affairs with apical /r/ + dental.
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