Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 9, 2002, 9:01 |
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Icelandic vowels:
| a e i o u y ö |
[ a E I/e o Y/2 I/e & ]
| á é í ó ú ý æ |
[ au jE i ou u i ai ]
| ei ey au |
[ Ei Ei &y ]
Accents are omitted before |ng, nk|, also
|öng, önk| are [&yN, &ynk|.
|Vgi| is pronounced [iji], thus |lagi| [laiji], and
|hugi| /hYiji/ may be realized as [hy:i].
At 00:15 2002-09-09 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > According to Nationalencyklopedin (a Swedish encyclopaedia), |=F6| has
> > derounded to [e]. Can't seem to find anything on the pronunciation of |au=
> > |.
>
>I can't find anything IPA-ish on the Net, but I think the Icelandic
>vowels work like this:
>
>a, e, i, o, u = [a], [E], [I], [O], [2].
> These are lengthened when followed by a single consonant.
>á, é, í, ó, ú = [au], [je], [i], [o] or [ou], [U] or [u].
> Note that accents are not written before ng/nk.
>y and ý are like i and í.
>ö is some central vowel, but I can't tell which, possibly rounded.
>ei is [eI], æ is [aI], au is [OI], ey is [eI] according to some but something
> [O]-ish according to others.
>
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