Re: Q (Caucasian Elf)

Danny Boy wrote:
>In Germanic and especially in Scandinavian, there are two forms of Umlaut:
>i-Umlaut (fronting, produces Swedish a-dots, o-dots and y) and u-Umlaut
>(rounding, produces Swedish a-ring).  Swedish, Norwegian and Danish carry
>over this nine-vowel system (or ten if you count the schwa e/a), but not
>Icelandic (which has length distinction).
Are you saying that Swedish, Norwegian and Danish do not have length
distinction? They definitely do -  stanrdard Swedish have 18-ish vowel
phonemes.
>
>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.

                                                Andreas
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