Re: Icelandic umlauts.

Whoa!  I was somehow able to decipher the garbled text!  (I opened up
Character Map, looked at the second character after the capital A-tilde, and
looked down two rows...

>From: Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
>Umlaut is a reoccuring thing in all major aspects of Icelandic grammar.
>They
>mainly appear as grammatical mechanisms in the following:
>
>1. Verb conjugation - the most complex part
>2. Noun declension - rather minimal, but prone to irregularities
>3. Word derivation - the fun part :)
>
>There are also freely variational forms (such as [i:D@4] and [aiD@4]
>'either') with 'umlaut' vs 'no umlaut', e.g. "nógan pening" vs "nægan
>pening".
"no'gan pening" vs. "naegan penins"  (o' = o-acute; ae = ash)

>First, the list of umlauts:
>
>u-umlaut:
>a > ö
a > o" (o-diaeresis/umlaut)

>i-umlaut:
>a > e
>o > y
>u > y
>ú > ý
>á > æ
>ó > æ
>vo > væ (was vá > væ, part of á > æ)
>jó > ý
>jú > ý
>au > ey
a > e, o/u > y, then:
u' > y', a'/o' > ae,
vo > vae (was va' > vae, part of va' > vae)
jo' > y', ju' > y', au > ey

If I'm not mistaken, Is. a = [a], a' = [au)], ae = [ai)], u = [U] or [u-]
(u-bar, as in Swedish), u' = [u:], y = [I], y' = [i:], and o" = [o/]
(o-slash)?

Daniel A. Wier  ¶¦¬þ
Lufkin, Texas USA
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