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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Danish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Danish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
A Danish sentence and a measurement of its pitch contour. Danish intonation reflects the combination of the stress group, sentence type and prosodic phrase, where the stress group is the main intonation unit. In Copenhagen Standard Danish, the stress group mainly has a certain pitch pattern that reaches its lowest peak on the stressed syllable ...
As with so many vowels, it has slight variations of "light" quality (in Danish, søster ("sister") is pronounced as [ø], like the "eu" in the French word bleu) and "dark" quality (in Danish, bønne ("bean") is pronounced as [œ], like the "œu" in the French word bœuf). [2] Listen to a Danish speaker reciting the Danish alphabet.
Danish pronunciation is typically described as 'softer', which in this case refers mostly to the frequent approximants corresponding to Norwegian, Swedish and historical plosives in some positions in the word (especially the pronunciation of the letters b, d, and g), as well as the German-like realisation of r as a uvular or even pharyngeal ...
Jutlandic, or Jutish (Danish: jysk; pronounced), is the western variety of Danish, spoken on the peninsula of Jutland in Denmark.. Generally, Jutlandic can be divided into two different dialects: general or Northern Jutlandic (nørrejysk; further divided into western and eastern) and Southern Jutlandic (sønderjysk). [3]
8.4 Danish words. 8.5 English words. ... there are many words which show a similar pronunciation in the languages of the world. The following is a list of some ...
Danish orthography is the system and norms used for writing the Danish language, including spelling and punctuation. Officially, the norms are set by the Danish language council through the publication of Retskrivningsordbogen. Danish currently uses a 29-letter Latin-script alphabet with an additional three letters: æ , ø and å .
The word skrejen comes from the Faroese verb skreiða ‘to sled’, but is not in use in Danish. [2] Another example is De store for flesen, de kan brække traver , where for flesen corresponds to Faroese fyri flesini 'outside the skerry' and traver to Faroese tráður fishing rods , ‘The big ones (i.e. coalfish ) outside the skerry can ...