From: tgpedersen
Message: 44824
Date: 2006-05-31
> In the now largely extinct ScandinavistGerman
> > tradition going back to the 1840's, in Denmark the songs of Swedish
> > poet Bellmann were sung in an imitated Swedish with /c^/.
> > c^ > the 'ich' sound is recent in Swedish.
>
> I would say that k- in kära is actually closer to Polish s´ than to
> ich-laut.That development is even more recent.
>