Estonian Swedish

Swedish TV had a re-run of a feature on the Estonian Swedes, whose
language almost disappeared during Socialism. I was puzzled over some
points of pronunciation: [g] was /g/ before front vowel as in Danish,
not /y/ as in all Swedish dialects I've heard of, [gj] was
similarly /gj/, not /j/ (from a folk song); and [k] was similarly /k/
before front vowel, not /x´/ or /c^/ (a dialect quote from memory).
Also it seemed d -> zero, g -> zero in inlaut (Danish -> ð, -> G,
dialectally -> zero).


Torsten