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Indeed, and œ would be close Icelandic ö (in ASCII-only systems umlaut ö is still often rendered as oe). The 'yogh sound' for words like 'loch' is really the on
by vesinisa 10y ago
Indeed, and œ would be close Icelandic ö (in ASCII-only systems umlaut ö is still often rendered as oe). The 'yogh sound' for words like 'loch' is really the only one altogether missing from modern Icelandic.
- runarberg 10y agoI always presumed that the œ ligature was later collapsed into ø, which is how Danish and Norwegians write the letter ö.
- arnarbi 10y agoö in Icelandic and Swedish is phonetically equivalent to ø in Danish and Norwegian. However the æ in Danish and Norwegian is like the OE one described in the article, between a and e, which is written ä in Swedish. Icelandic does not have that sound, and uses æ in the Latin way, representing the ai diphthong (as in English "fine"). The more common vowels also have fairly different pronunciations in the four languages.