Oskar wrote:
> >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.
Yes, but Dutch pronounciation is said to be the funniest... not everyone
speaks with a potato in the throat! And then i prefer Swedish orthography...
ya know, I don't particularly like all those Æ's and Ø's : )
> >Insularisk: Icelandic orthography + Faeroese pronounciation + Norse
> >vocabulary
>
> Norse vocab? What's that? :)
> I'd say Icelandic orthography + mediated Icel./Far. pronunciation + "Norse
> vocab" (mediated?)
Old Norse... which I think is 99% the same as modern Icelandic. BTW, I heard
that Faeroese affricatizes /k/ and /g/ to /tS/ and /dZ/. Is it true? Strange
for a Germanic language.
>
> >Sounds cool!
>
> It does. I'd like to engineer some of it, especially the "insularisk"
(which
> I'd rather call "eyjamaal".
-Eyja- meaning -islands'- (gen. plur?) and -maal- -language? Cool, yeah!
Luca
> Oskar
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