Just a thought.

According to the phonetic description of Icelandic I was taught
voice is phonemic in the following Icelandic sounds:

j
l
m
n
r

And as far as I can tell with English voice is phonemic in
the following sounds:

f
t
p
k
s
sh
ch

It would seem that there is no overlap between the two languages!
Sounds that occur as either voiced or unvoiced in Icelandic exist
only in one variety in English - and vice versa.

No wonder we're having trouble :-)

Kveðja,
Haukur

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