Re: Leute (was...)
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 22, 2004, 10:16 |
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On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:51:00 +1000, Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>
wrote:
>J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
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>>Shortness doesn't surprise me, since my own dialect has shortened
>>many old lengths (it's 'Schwytzerdütsch', not 'Schwyyzerdüütsch').
>
>Pardon me, but how is this 'y' (& 'yy') pronounced?
I'm sorry, I should have mentioned it: It's the Swiss German dialect
convention for the sound of [i] as opposed to <i> that represents [I]. The
same convention applies to many Swiss geographical and other names, as the
canton of Schwyz, or the Mythen mountains. That use of <y> isn't made by
all, especially among the younger writers. It's seldom doubled; normally
<y> is used for [i] as well as for [i:].
I don't know about the origin of this use, but I suppose it's not a 20th
century innovation.
So it'd be "['Sv\it:srdytS] not [Sv\i:tsrdy:tS]".
g_0ry@_^s:
j. 'mach' wust
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