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Do you have any examples? As a Finnish speaker the Swedish "a" sounds the same. "Pappa", "framtiden" etc. It's "ä" and "e" which have swapped uses, but it's no
by lrasinen 1y ago
Do you have any examples? As a Finnish speaker the Swedish "a" sounds the same. "Pappa", "framtiden" etc.
It's "ä" and "e" which have swapped uses, but it's not exactly consistent (e.g. "Järnvägstorget" where first ä is close to the Finnish ä, second ä is closer to e but so is the e at the end)
- dijit 1y agoÄ in Swedish is an æ sound. Ä in Finnish is a pitched A sound, like the A in “cat”. The pitched “a” in Swedish is the default one.
- lrasinen 1y agoWikipedia lists both "cat" and the Finnish "mäki" under æ: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vo... Do you have some example words that would show the difference?
- dijit 1y agoWell, mostly hearing people say the words will be telling. Gävle in Sweden: https://forvo.com/word/g%C3%A4vle/ https://forvo.com/word/g%C3%A4vle/ Linnanmäki in Finland: https://forvo.com/word/linnanm%C3%A4ki/ https://forvo.com/word/linnanm%C3%A4ki/ In the Finnish example you can hear both the soft “en” (linnan) and the higher pitched “” (maki) which is triggered with umlauts; Where the Swedish A is softened by umlauts in the Gävle example.
- 3836293648 1y agoThat's an american cat then, because that sounds crazy to my ears
- dijit 1y ago(how did I get downvoted for this when I literally lived in both countries)