Re: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton"

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Tangentially, my mother's native 'lect differs from more standardesque
> variants
> > of Swedish in exactly the same way, maintaining a distinction 'tween short
> 'e'
> > and 'ä'
>
> That's pretty universally the case in West Swedish local standard.
> (a dialect in Henrik's sense (a))
>
> > (not always coincident with the orthography).
>
> But most always with etymology, at least in dialect per
> Henrik's sense (b)! Yay!
>
> FYI my (a) dialect has 12 vowel phonemes against the 9
> of the "standard", but mostly coinciding with the
> phonetic vowel qualities of the standard.  My (b) dialect
> also has 12 vowel phonemes, but has [&] rather than [E],
> and the lexical incidence is different.
9 nine vowel phonemes in the standard? Assuming vowel length not to be phonemic,
I count ten; /i y e 2 E a 8 o u au/. I guess you wouldn't recognize /au/?

                                                      Andreas

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