From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58700
Date: 2008-05-20
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
>> And French has only three left aN eN oN
>> the others were lost.
>Four, including öN, spelled un.
>Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, my phonetics teacher, used to tell us that
>there was no need to go to French when North West Fyn (where she came
>from) had ten nasal vowels.
>Torsten
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Standard northern French (I suppose about 70% of speakers)
does not have öN,
this is a dialectal feature : mostly southern speakers
but I have encountered (old) people in the east,
who clearly had [löNdi] in <lundi>.
If you learn French, you can just forget öN
You might even get misunderstood
if you over-do it.
My respect to North West Fyn.
Do they have non-nasal vowels ?
Arnaud
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