Re: ML4 (was Re: TECH: Testing again etc.)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 20, 2003, 19:53 |
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At 10:11 20.11.2003, you wrote:
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> > (BTW, is _å_ in Scandinavian langs actually [O]?
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>I hope so. But any of our Scandinavian colleagues may explain it better.
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In Danish you have: å = /O/, o = /o/, u = /u/.
In Swedish: å = /o/, o = /u/, u = /8/.
In Norwegian: å = /o/, o = /u/, u = /u\/.
There are oddball words where _o_ is /o/ in
both Swedish and Norwegian, and in Danish short
vowels are frequently one step lower than
what their orthography suggests.
/BP 8^)
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