USAGE: Norwegian "w" (was: Labiodental approximant?)

taliesin:

> No such thing as spoken 'norwegian'... we may have two written forms,
> but if you're talking about speech, you -always- have to mention at the
> least whether your data is based on eastern or western speech... the
> phoneme-inventory is different, the intonation, the morphology, the
> actual shapes of the tonemes (tonal patterns) are swapped...
My comments on Nw. "v" were based on western speech, specifically the
different pronunciations of "Vik" and "Voss" I heard in the Voss and, um,
Vik area (S. of Sognefjorden). IIRC, just about anything from /vos/ to /wus/
(to the initially-untrained ear, anyway). But this
bilabial-approximant-type-thing seemed pretty common, with *slight*
friction. I'm not making sense any more (i.e. even less than usual). I'm off
for a long bath. See you tomorrow, fellow lingweenies. :)

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