Re: Palatals, labials and velars in Swedish

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande" <aquila_grande@...>
wrote:

>
> The Scandinavian vowel pronounciation differ from dialect to
> dialect. In standard Norwegian and the Oslo dialect (close to
> standard) you have this:
>
> u - a mid half-closed roundeed wovel. (nearly a rounded schwa-

sound,

> but a little more closed than a schwa-sound.

Also in Finlandish u has remained in this mid position. But yet it's
not really a rounded schwa-sound. Compare the lyrics of Tove
Jansson's Höstvisa, which I suppose you have heard, and sing the
Norwegian version:

Skynda dig älskade, skynda att älska,
dagarna mörkna minut för minut,
tänd våra ljus, det är nära till natten,
snart är den blommande sommarn slut

Skynd deg nå elskede, skynd deg å elske.
Dagene mørkner minutt for minutt.
Tenn våre lys, det nærmer seg natten,
snart er en blomstrende sommer slutt.

>
> y - a front very closed rounded wovel. (actually a rounded shap i-
> sound, so closed that it approximates to a palatale fricative)
>
> All standard Norwegian vowels can be long or short in any

position,

> even though long unstressed vowels are little frequent.
>
> Also i (unrounded) has the same palatal near-fricative
> pronounciation.But if you close it even more to give a real
> fricative, you suddenly make a consonatal phoneme (usually spelt

j,

> and sometimes g) Example gi - to give. This word is
> pronounced "ji:", with a very slight difference between the

palatal

> consonant and the very closed vowel.
>

Also in Bohuslän (really a Norwegian dialect - a Viken dialect.)
Lysekil /lzsc^zl/, the first z with rounded lips.

Lars