Re: [tied] Palatals, labials and velars in Swedish

> >
> > I believe I once saw the Swedish "long u" sound transcribed
> as /yw/, while its "long y" was transcribed as /yj/. Are such
> transcriptions accurate, or are they simplifications/just plain
> wrong?
>
> It is true that all long vowels in Swedish are diphthongs. But the
> end part (w j) is more a consonant than a vowel. Therefore many
> Swedes live with the illusion that their language is monophthongic.
> What is considered a long i: is therefore an i + the voiced variant
> of c^. In the province of Bohuslän this element approaches a voiced
> z ressembling as I have mentioned Québecois Abitibi. A proof that
> Canada was doubly colonized first by Leif Eriksson and then in the
> beginning of the XVIIth century by descendants of vikings settled

in

> Normandy.
>

I hear Stockholm e: and o: (written å) as diphthongs ea and oa
respectively. I haven't seen it described anywhere.


Torsten