Re: How to pronounce tjener?

["nigel barker" <nigel@hiroshima-is.ac.jp>]

Thanks Herman, for a very clear answer :)

Nigel


> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 18:08 +0900, nigel barker wrote:
>> Someone asked me this question, and I didn't know the answer.
>> Swedish kids in my school were no help!
>
>  Obviously not, as Swedes would pronounce it differently. ;-)
>
> The common pronounciation around Oslo, in the most populous
> region of Norway, is [tye:ner]
>
> I don't know how to write _real_ phonetic spelling glyphs
> in an e-mail, so I will elaborate:
>
> The 'y' is a consonant here; "ye" is one long syllable.
> The second 'e' is a short "uh" sound, with less emphasis.
>
> The intonation is the characteristic double-emphasis
> that you (as far as I know) only find in Norwegian and
> Swedish: The second syllable has almost as much stress
> as the first.
>
> --
>  Herman Robak
>
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