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Re: USAGE: Latin alphabet (Re: Chinese Dialect Question)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 1:59
Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > > And then there's those really weird folks who use the so called "Viby-i". > For > > these people "i" and "y" are [z=] and [z_w=] ... > > What!? (That being a request for more information about this apparently > bizarre phenomenon.)
I'm afraid there isn't much more info I can give. Some varieties of Swedish have these weird substitutions - that's really all I know. It's quite possibly more proof that Swedish is really a Chinese dialect trying to pass off as a Germanic language. :) Andreas

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