>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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