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Modern Standard Danish has around 20 different vowel qualities. These vowels are shown below in a narrow transcription. /ə/ and /ɐ/ occur only in unstressed syllables and thus can only be short. Long vowels may have stød, thus making it possible to distinguish 30 different vowels in stressed syllables.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Danish pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Table of consonant and vowel signs used in Dania, published by Jespersen in 1890 [1]. Dania (Latin for Denmark) is the traditional linguistic transcription system used in Denmark to describe the Danish language.
Date: 12 March 2018: Source: Own work, based on a vowel chart in Ladefoged, Peter; Johnson, Keith (1975) A Course in Phonetics, 6th edition, Boston, MA: Wadsworth, published 2010, page 227, which is based on Fischer-Jørgensen, Eli (1972), “Formant Frequencies of Long and Short Danish Vowels”, in Scherabon Firchow, Evelyn; Grimstad, Kaaren; Hasselmo, Nils; O'Neil, Wayne A., editors ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:41, 4 July 2020: 982 × 746 (60 KB): Nardog: Reverted to version as of 08:46, 22 April 2020 (UTC) not phonemic
In two consecutive vowels the stressed vowel is always long and the unstressed is always short. The letters c, q, w, x, z are not used in the spelling of native words. Therefore, the phonemic interpretation of letters in loanwords depends on the donating language. However, Danish tends to preserve the original spelling of loanwords.
In the case of a Danish vs. non-Danish letter being the only difference in the names, the name with a Danish letter comes first. For expressions of multiple words (e.g. a cappella), one can choose between ignoring the space or sorting the space, the lack of any letter, first. [1]
near-close front rounded vowel: German hübsch, Swedish ylle: 2: ø: close-mid front rounded vowel: French deux (hence '2'), German Höhle, Danish købe: 9: œ: open-mid front rounded vowel: French neuf (hence '9'), German Hölle: 1: ɨ: close central unrounded vowel: Polish mysz @ ə: mid central vowel: English about, German bitte, Swedish ...