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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
> >
>
> I checked up on Brøndum-Nielsen and discovered palatalised dorsals
> were much more wide spread before. Only Sjælland had /k/, /g/ in
> Anlaut.
>
> Which means Sjællandsk and Estonian Swedish have both de-
> patalatalised. The dynasty under which Estonia was conquered was
> based on Scania and Sjælland. Seems I can forget the idea of later
> German influence being the cause of depalatalisation.
>
Seems to fit in the scenario of an invasion from the continent (i.e.
the area south of the Baltic) making a surrounding movement around
Själland.
Like gender difference -e -a to Själland adjacent Sw. west-coast and
Scania are still the stronghold of palatalization:
the word 'kex', a loan from English 'cakes', is pronounced /keks/ in
upper Sweden, but in west and south the sound law has still been
functioning during the 19th century and the pronounciation is
palatal: /tjeks/.
Surprisinglingly, Hellqvist gives the Danish correspondent 'kjeks'
alongside 'kiks'. 'Kjeks' is the form adopted in Norwegian.
Lars