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Blåhaj rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So is it [bloːhaj]? I was trying to say [bloːhɑj] but [ɑ] feels perhaps odd next to the glide?

Completely an inference from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Swedish so I may have fucked up the phonotactics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

According to the Wikipedia page the phonetics would be [ˈblôːhaj]

Or as one of my twins says it "Hello hi"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

You sent me down one hell of a rabbit hole 😭 At first I was confused by the tone marker, but it turns out Swedish is a pitch accent language. So that clears things up xd

But before I even got to that, the section on vowels caught my eye. Apparently, /oː/ can be realized as [ɤʷː], [oə] (Central Standard), or [ɔə] (Gotland?). So apparently [blɤ̂ʷːhaj], [bloəhaj], and [blɔəhaj] are all valid realizations of /blôːhaj/ (varying in dialect)? Thankfully BLÅHAJ has no rhotics or i wouldve started getting into the literature