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Re: NATLANG: Phonemic &\

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, October 15, 2004, 9:31
Citerar "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:34:56 -0400, Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote: > > >Do any natlangs (or even conlangs?) have /&\/ as a phoneme? I've read it > >described it as "rare", but haven't seen it anywhere except on the X-Sampa > >chart. > > I've been told that it occurs in Austrian dialects of German, and I imagine > that it might be their correspondance of standard German /aI/ (or however > you want to write it).
It is claimed to exist in several Swedish dialects but the sound I have is rather 3\. It is the reflex of Old Swedish short /o/ as in [h3\:l] "hole". /BP