Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census

At 11:36 8.2.2004, Aleksander Helgaker wrote:
> > From my (limited) knowledge of Norwegian, I'd guess that 'tj' is [tS]
> > and 'sj' is [S].
>
>Me being a Norwegian I would say that's pretty accurate.
Me being a would-be phonetician I would say:

_tj_ [ts\]
_sj_ [s`]
_kj_ [s\]

But then many Norwegians seem to have _sj_ and _kj_
merging into what I hear as [s\] but perhaps should
be [S].

/BP 8^)
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