Re: [tied] Re: Pronunciation of "r" - again?

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 41212
Date: 2005-10-10

Privately I was aware that I was ignoring these dialectal features.  I should have specified that I meant "standard languages".
 
Andrew

squilluncus <grvs@...> wrote:
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ehlsmith" <ehlsmith@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> wrote:......
> > david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:
  Also for example, most Indo-European languages changed
> initial /w/ to /v/. One changed it to /b/, one to /gw/, and in one
it
> disappeared.  But all other Indo-European languages changed the
> sound /w/ in initial position. 

As discussed before with Torsten, many dialects, mainly around
Kattegat and Skagerak (intermediaries of the North Sea and the
Baltic), have W in initial position.
Not as far north as the Oslo-fiord. Otherwise we would have spoken
about Wikings.

Lars