- orthography - Why is och (and) not spelled og in Swedish . . .
When unstressed, Swedish "och" is phonetically [ɔ], which isn't any different from Norwegian "og" [ɔ] Referencing Danish is really not that informative as Danish has voiced most of its consonants so that even if it had "*ok", it would've gone to "og" either way (a generic example: Danish vs Swedish bog bok 'book')
- standards - Is there a difference between Belgian Dutch (i. e. Flemish . . .
"Flemish" technically has a different meaning from "Belgian Standard Dutch" — the latter being the standard form of the Dutch language as spoken in Belgium, much like how "Holland" is often used as a synonym for "The Netherlands", but technically only comprises a region thereof
- semantics - What is the difference between an implicature and a . . .
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- phonetics - About the Swedish ɧ - Linguistics Stack Exchange
@Midas Just to be clear, when you talk about the ʃ phoneme, you mean the ‘sje’ sound, right? So you’re saying that Fenno-Swedish speakers pronounce sju sjösjuka sjuksjöterskor as something like [t͡su̵ː t͡sœːt͡su̵ːka t͡su̵ːkt͡sœːtεɾskoɾ], with [t͡s] being the same sound(s) as found in hits or beats in English?
- Lexical similarity among languages used in Southeast Asia
Among many languages used in Southeast Asia (especially I want to talk about Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Thai), is there any study about which pair of languages is close to each other in vocabu
- meaning - About the arbitrariness of a sign - Linguistics Stack Exchange
I cannot answer it because I cannot really decipher it So I just responded to the part I can understand I looked in the French version, as I speak French and studied in France, and I do not see anything remotely similar to what you say about the ox, och and boeuf example It's true I went rather fast –
- history - Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance . . .
There is a common assumption in all the answers so far, which I think is mistaken It is that the question has a well-definied, categorical answer, that English is either Germanic or Romance, and cannot be some mix of the two
- What do Old Swedish mz, thz mean? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
[Isl asua] ösa eg och bildl han fan först watn ij enom hwlum steen ij sin hiälm monde thz ösa Al 4907 hon löpter ater til brunnin oc öser watn wllwallomen MB 1: 204 al diwr vm kring fölghdo hanom hwilkom han öste vatn af kälo til dryk KL 195 j scullin ösa gudz nadha vatn aff helarens nadha klädhom MP 1:
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