Re: ON of the Day (and more)

Óskarr reit:

>I have no idea what "rolling sound" means... The symbol you refer to
>indicates voicelessness. In your phonetisation, you had [hr], which
>is, strictly speaking, wrong (even if it was in the book);
>orthographic <hr> (in both ON and MI) is pronounced [r^0], just like
>the <r> in MI <rp rt rk> (pronounced [r^0p], etc). [hr] would
>actually be extremely difficult to pronounce, I think, without
>lapsing into [r^0].

I'm not sure all of the phonetic gang
agree with you:) There are those who
say "hn" is pronounced [hn] etc.


For maps of Icelandic dialects see this page:

http://www.hi.is/~hoski/mallglaer.html

Note that we're not talking dialects in the
normal sense but rather some minor differences
in pronunciation of a few phonemes.

Kveðja,
Haukr