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Camundonguinho
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26 October 2014 at 3:55pm | IP Logged

daegga wrote:

Using ø instead of ə for the schwa looks weird and quite confusing. What's the reasoning
behind this?

It may be due to the fact in Norwegian [ ə ] is represented with ø.

I've only heard IPA [ø] for Norwegian graphem ø in regional Northern Norwegian,
to other Norwegians, the local name of the city of Tromsø (as pronounced by the locals) sounds as if it were [trumse].

Tromsø
[trumsə] standard Norwegian
[trumsø] Northern Norwegian
[trumse] Tromsø-dialect Norwegian

For Swedish ö, I've heard the same three pronunciations:

Malmö
[malmə]
[malmø]
[malme] Malmö-dialect Swedish

-løva- (Nynorsk for ''the lion'') sounds like -lover- as pronounced in Welsh English.

Edited by Camundonguinho on 26 October 2014 at 4:03pm

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