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sh in all positions in many English loanwords sj in many native Swedish words sk in native Swedish words before the front vowels e, i, y, ä, ö skj in five words only, four of which are enumerated in the phrase I bara skjortan skjuter han skjutsen in i skjulet (In just his shirt he pushes the vehicle into the shed).
In loanwords, all three can stand for the disyllabic sequences [i.a, i.e, i.u], rather than the rising diphthongs. The starting points of those diphthongs are written with ɪ , rather than j (as in Spanish tierra [ˈtjera] ) because [ɪɐ, ɪe, ɪu] count as a long vowel in the rhythmical rule described below, unlike the phonological consonant ...
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Swedish has nine vowels that, as in many other Germanic languages, exist in pairs of long and short versions. [1] The length covaries with the quality of the vowels, as shown in the table below (long vowels in the first column, short in the second), with short variants being more centered and lax. [1]
The word list is named after the cities of Leipzig, Germany, and Jakarta, Indonesia, the places where the list was conceived and created. In the 1950s, the linguist Morris Swadesh published a list of 200 words called the Swadesh list, allegedly the 200 lexical concepts found in all languages that were least likely to be borrowed from other ...
As a result, there are plenty of words without vowels. Examples of long words of this type are scvrnkls 'you (m.) flicked (something) away', čtvrthrst 'quarter handful', [ 2 ] and čtvrtsmršť 'quarter whirlwind', [ 3 ] the latter two being artificial, though grammatical, constructs unlikely to occur spontaneously.
Six print volumes of the DARE have been published by Harvard University's Belknap Press. Volume I (1985) contains detailed introductory material, plus the letters A-C; Volume II (1991) covers the letters D-H; Volume III (1996) contains I-O; Volume IV (2002) includes P-Sk; and Volume V (2012) covers Sl-Z as well as a bibliography of nearly 13,000 sources cited in the five volumes.