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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Norewgian (and Swedish) vowels
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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 00:03:10 GMT
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In article <HFI9AB.94Nov3211428@vkhdib01.hda.hydro.com>,
Anders Blehr <hfi9ab@vkhdib01.hda.hydro.com> wrote:
>Miguel Carrasquer writes:
>
>   Ok, rounded i, that gives IPA [y]...
>
>No, no, no!!  Well, maybe yes, but the Norwegian and Swedish sound
>ortographically represented by "y" is *not* IPA [y].  In fact, I don't
>know the IPA symbol for Norwegian /y/.  

From what I'm told and what I've been able to check, Norwegian/
Swedish "y" is IPA [u-], a central, rounded vowel.  What you do,
is pronounce Russian "y" < bI >, and round the lips :-)

Campbell's "Compendium of the World's Languages" is a bit
confuse about Norwegian, but the sounds/spelling for Swedish
are described as:

I, i:, e, e:, E, E:, Y, Y:, a, a:, oe, 0:, u-, u-:, u, u:, O, o:
i      e      a"     y      a      o"      u        o      a.


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