Hail Eaglelight!

> Here are two correct examples of long vowel + long consonant:
> 'siitt' meaning 'have seen' (note that ON has 'séa'; Old Dalska
> probably had 'sía')
> 'twäädde' meaning 'washed' (note that ON has the infinitive 'þvá', so
> the 'ää' in dalska corresponds the i-umlauted 'á')

Neither of these examples seem very interesting :-) That is, in both
cases the long-long syllable is formed by a grammatical ending.
Are there instances of long-long within the root of a word -
such as ON "áttir" or "ótti"? I'm especially thinking of an instance
where there is a phonemic difference between long-long and either short-long
or long-short (such as if "siit" or "sitt" is a word?).

> These examples are found in 'Liten älvdalsk-svensk och svensk-
> älvdalsk ordbok' by Lars Steensland. In fact I took the examples from
> the place in the book where he writes about this phenomenon.

Do you know of any good book that discusses the phonology
and morphology of Dalska?

> I've put up two poems in Dalska together with their soundfiles (about
> 370-380 KB each) at this site
> http://www.geocities.com/jepe2503/hogsvenska/dalska_dikter.html

Wow! That sounds like nothing I've heard before.

The spelling seems very eccentric - and unlike the other Dalska
orthographies I've seen. Does everyone spell this language a different
way? This way seems, in some ways, to strive for phonological precision;
as in the following example:

Dalska: D[sh]inggum aut og inn.

Old Norse: Gingum út ok inn.

The "dsh" pronunciation of ON 'g' before fronted vowels is common in
Scandinavian languages but most are content in spelling it with 'g'.

On the other hand 'þ' is used in this spelling for something that seems
to be a plosive.

Some sentences are very transparent to me:

Dalska: Og settum upp nogû autaus.
Old Norse: Ok settum upp nökkur útihús.

but a lot I don't understand at all.

Could you supply a translation to Rikssvenska / English / Old Norse / Whatever? :-)

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