Re: Vowelless Sentences
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 16:58 |
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At 22:51 21.6.2000 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>Swedish:
>I åa ä e ö å i öa ä e å.
>"In the stream there is an island and in the island there is a stream."
Not Standard Swedish, but Värmland dialect. The corresponding SSW is:
"I ån är en ö och i ön är en å"
Most people would pronounce _är_ "is" as [E:] or [&:]. I pronounce it
[e:], so in my dialect _Det är en ö_ "It is an island" is ["De::n "%:].
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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