Re: R: Re: R: Re: Swedish/Norwegian/Danish

>From: Mangiat <mangiat@...>
>Subject: R:      Re: R: Re: Swedish/Norwegian/Danish
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:43:09 +0200
>Old Norse... which I think is 99% the same as modern Icelandic.
Ah...<in doubt>...don't agree there. In orthographical and lexical terms,
I'd (taking a wild shot) guess 70% the same.

>BTW, I heard
>that Faeroese affricatizes /k/ and /g/ to /tS/ and /dZ/. Is it true?
>Strange
>for a Germanic language.
It's true. Well, it just affricates the already palatalized allophones of
those phonemes (in Icelandic they're merely palatalized). But it also
realizes others, e.g. /hj/, as [tS].
And it's not that strange for a Germanic language. Just a bit. English did
it, for example.
And continental Scandinavian has made various treatments on these as well.
Much of Swedish seems to yield [S] for formerly palatalized /k/ (which would
indicate a late stage, with [tS] usually preceding [S], as it did in many
Romance langs). Some Norwegian dialects have [hj] as the palatalized
allophone. I bet some dialects have [tS] as well.

>-Eyja- meaning -islands'- (gen. plur?) and -maal- -language? Cool, yeah!
Exactly. We're so puristic here in Iceland, remember? I also personally
dislike the term "Scandinavia", as it is both longish and meaningless (in
our langs, that is). For "Scandinavian language", I prefer "nordisk", for
"Scandinavian people", I prefer "nordisk folk", etc.

Oskar
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