Re: RV: Old English

Vasiliy Chernov wrote:


> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:17:52 +0200, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>
> >No way to tell, since /sk/ before palatal vowels or /j/ eventually became
> >/S/ -- and even [x] in most Swedish! -- in Scandinavian too.
>
> The major contributors were Danish and Icelandic which avoided this
> somehow... ;)
>
> [x] in Swedish? Interesting. Where did I see a site about Swedish
> dialects?..
Many dictionaries use IPA hooked and tailed lowercase h, (I guess is /x\/ in
X-SAMPA), defined as both /S/ and /x/, my teachers (Stockholm) usually used
a combined sound but AFAIK in northern Sweden the sound is more /S/ and in
the South is more like /x/.  Any how, as longer as you can make a contrast
between <sj> /x\/, and <tj> /C/, things are _okej_. even pronouncing <sj> as
[S] and <tj> as [tS] you would sound funny but people would understand you.

Any how, the [S] -> [x] change has happened in Spanish, I wonder if there
was a [x\] transition.

> Basilius
-- Carlos Th