Re: _de_ i svenska (var Question about anaphora)

Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:

> Hello,
>
> > >Hm, just to clarify: _de_ is pronounced [dOm], at least in
> > Sweden. I'll
> > let those with more grounding than me in _nordiska språkhistoria_
> > explain the discrepancy.
> >
> > In some parts of sweden it's pronounced /tei/, /tej/, /tey/,
> > or different versions on that
>
> Is that way up north, Jämtland/Lappland/whatever? I woudn't be
> surprised.
>
> My understanding is that one can't really ascribe those dialects to
> either Swedish or Norwegian, since Scandinavian dialects appear to be
> divided quite independently of the political borders. One could make
> this into an essentialist explanation, but I can't think of a good one
> just now.
Swedish and Norwegian are essentially Jämtländska as spoken east and west of
the border, respectively.

[de:] and [dI] are also alive as dialectal pronunciations of _de_. Some people
who normally say [dOm] will read _de_ as [de:].

                                                     Andreas