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The Sweden pronunciation is based primarily on Central Standard Swedish, and the Finland one on Helsinki pronunciation. Recordings and example transcriptions in this help are in Sweden Swedish, unless otherwise noted. See Swedish phonology and Swedish alphabet § Sound–spelling correspondences for a more thorough look at the sounds of Swedish.
Swedish has a large vowel inventory, with nine vowels distinguished in quality and to some degree in quantity, making 18 vowel phonemes in most dialects. Another notable feature is the pitch accent, a development which it shares with Norwegian. Swedish pronunciation of most consonants is similar to that of other Germanic languages.
The sj-sound (Swedish: sj-ljudet [ˈɧêːˌjʉːdɛt]) is a voiceless fricative phoneme found in the sound system of most dialects of Swedish.It has a variety of realisations, whose precise phonetic characterisation is a matter of debate, but which usually feature distinct labialization.
Hej is a village in Jörns socken in the north-west part of Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. The word Hej is the most common greeting in the Swedish language, and the equivalent of 'hi' in English. The village got its name in the 19th century when a surveyor played with the childish rhyme Snipp, snapp, snorum, hej basalorum.
In loanwords from various other languages, the pronunciation of ch , sch and sh has been modified to the Swedish sj-sound. The Swedish [ j ] sound can also be spelled several different ways, including dj , g , gj , hj , j , or lj , similarly to the tj -sound which can be spelled with ch (in some loanwords), k , kj , or tj .
A few letters that did not indicate specific sounds have been retired – ˇ , once used for the "compound" tone of Swedish and Norwegian, and ƞ , once used for the moraic nasal of Japanese – though one remains: ɧ , used for the sj-sound of Swedish. When the IPA is used for broad phonetic or for phonemic transcription, the letter–sound ...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 December 2024. North Germanic language Swedish Svenska Pronunciation [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] Native to Sweden, Finland, formerly Estonia Ethnicity Swedes Speakers Native: 10 million (2012–2021) L2 speakers: 3 million Language family Indo-European Germanic North Germanic East Scandinavian Swedish Early forms ...