>I assume [&] here has the proper X-SAMPA value of front low rounded, rather
>than the conlangesque one, more SAMPAically indicated as [{]?
>
> Andreas
Já! (Yes!)
>BP Jonsson wrote:
>>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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http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
>>
>>
>>/BP 8^)>
>>--
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