Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 19:19 |
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At 12:42 8.2.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Thanks to the half-assed way we assimilate the spellings of loans, Swedish
>probably deserves some sort of prize for atrocious ways of spelling [x]. Let's
>see, we have 'sj', 'sk', 'skj', 'stj', 'ch', 'sch', 'sh', 'g', 'j'. That's
>nine already, and I'm quite possibly forgetting one or three.
Actually there are 23, if you count _xj_ in _Växjö_!
ch, che, g, ge, gi, ige, j, je, sc, sch, sh, shi, si,
sj, sk, skj, ssi, ssj, stg, sti, stj, ti
>Then there's the word _östgöte_ "man/person from Östergötland" with
The same is mutatis mutandis true of _Väst(er)götland, västgöte_ etc.
/BP 8^)
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