Swedish/Norwegian/Danish 5

>Date:         Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:39:21 GMT
>From: Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
>Subject:      Re: R: Re: Swedish/Norwegian/Danish
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>
> >From: Mangiat <mangiat@...>
> >Subject: R:      Re: Swedish/Norwegian/Danish
> >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:22:39 +0200
>
> >Kontinentalisk: Swedish orthography + Dutch pronounciation + Nynorsk
> >vocabulary
>
>Dutch pronunciation!?! Funny suggestion, but I don't find an abundance of
>uvular fricatives to be particularly Scandinavian. I'd go for
>Danish/Bokmaal orthography + Swedish pronunciation + Nynorsk vocab.
For political reasons I would go for mediated Norsk/Svensk orthography,
mediated vocabulary and Danish pronunciation.

> >Insularisk: Icelandic orthography + Faeroese pronounciation + Norse
> >vocabulary
>
>Norse vocab? What's that? :) I'd say Icelandic orthography + mediated
>Icel./Far. pronunciation + "Norse vocab" (mediated?)
I'ld go for pure Old Norse orthography and vocab (whatever "pure Old Norse
vocab" would be! :-) and mediated Icel/Far/ON pronunciation:
    (SAMPA transcription except:
        ' = SAMPA %
        % = SAMPA 2
        & = SAMPA {
        6 = SAMPA Q
        ^ = SAMPA 6 **and** = SAMPA V
        9_@ = SAMPA &  (_@ = SAMPA _")
                (usu. I use 9 for all of SAMPA 9 & 3\ !)
        W = SAMPA }  (SAMPA W = hw)
                (usu. I use yw for SAMPA })
    )


    í   i
    i   e
    é   je
    e   ea
    æ   ai
    a   a
    á   oa
    o   uO
    ó   ou
    u   Y
    ú   u
    ý   ui
    y   Yi -- Icel. _hugi_ /hYije/
    ø   %
    œ   oy
    ö   O
    ei  ei
    ey  öy
    au  au

        (This is more or less the pronunciation of Old Norse which they
teach in school in Lucus' Norway! ;-)


> >Sounds cool!
>
>It does. I'd like to engineer some of it, especially the "insularisk"
>(which I'd rather call "eyjamaal".
Rather someone should engineer a proper orthography for Far -- one without
ð and other artificial distinctions as a steppingästone to be able to learn
"Eyjamál"!  Far _maður_ sounds totally different from Icl _maður_, and
should be spelled _mævur_, just as the Icl word should be _madur_.



/BP 8^)>
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