Re: Conlang Christmas

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>...
>  - /i:/ -> [z\=:e)] (or [z=:e)], since I'm bidialectal).
>  - /y:/ -> [z\_O=:2)] or [z_O=:2)]
>  - /e:/ -> [e:E)]
>  - /2:/ -> [2:3\)]
>  - /E:/ -> [E:&)] or [E:e)]
>  - /a:/ -> [a:&] or [&:E)]
>  - /3\:/ -> [3\:6)]
>  - /A:/ -> [Q:6)]
>  - /o:/ -> [o_o:3\)]
>  - /u:/ -> [u:U\)] or [u:8)] or even [uB_o8)], still somehow
>    only one syllable!
>  - /u\:/ -> [8_+_w:3\)] or even [8_+_wB_o3\)], also still
>    one syllable.
Interesting.  Indeed, the Swedish vowels I heard sound very different
from German, too, and I did have the same impression that they are
slightly diphthongised.

The same in many Dutch dialects (I was actually very confused that
[e:] was the transscription of a long _e_ in Dutch, since I constantly
mixed it up with _ij_.  After a while, I could distinguish them and
now pronounce them [eI)] and [&I)]).

**Henrik

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