> Probably very relevant. Tensing of vowels beore [N] is well known from
> other languages as well. It is also the reason for the most long-standing
> spelling debate in Icelandic: _munkur_ is pronounced as if it was spelled
> _múnkur_, and the same for all other vowels before _nk_ and _ng_. Some
> people use a reformed spelling, and there are people who are really pissed
> off at each other...
Same with the /a/ before /nk/ and /ng/ - /langur/ is pronounced like
/la'ngur/. Laxness wrote it with the acute....screwed me up a bit at first
when I was only a few months into learning Icelandic and was reading
Atomstodin.
>
> B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X)
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