Re: Q (Caucasian Elf)

Lars Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > Date:         Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:49:54 -0500
> > From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
>
> > Danny Boy wrote:
> > >Not many languages around the world have the low front rounded vowel,
>which
> > >in IPA is (capital) OE-ligature and some ungodly amalgam of symbols in
> > >Kirschenbaum which I don't remember.  It *might* exist in some Turkic
> > >languages but not Turkish itself.
> >
> > My dad's Swedish dialect (it's a kind of Småländska that have no name of
>its
> > own that I'm aware of) or something close. It corresponds to standard
> > Swedish "ö" but is more open.
>
>According to the SAMPA page for Swedish, standard <ö> is SAMPA /2/,
>IPA /ø/ --- except before <r>, where it's SAMPA /9/, IPA oe-ligature.
>
>Is your dad's <ö> even more open than the latter?
I seems so to me, but I'm no phonologist so I daren't say I'm completely
sure. To mess things up, he only uses this "special ö" when talking dialect
- normally he talks more or less standard Swedish with the same ö's as me
(those you described).

                                                    Andreas
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