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That is indeed true! The most famous example can be found at the bottom of this page: https://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/tongue-twisters/swedish_tongue_twiste
by valvar 3y ago
That is indeed true!
The most famous example can be found at the bottom of this page: https://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/tongue-twisters/swedish_tongue_twisters.html https://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/tongue-twisters/swedish_...
å: stream
ö: island
i: in
ä: not correct, but used to represent dialectical pronunciation of "är", i.e. "is"
- korla 3y agoFurther: e: dialectal version of "det", i.e. "it" öa, åa: adding an a on the end of a noun is a dialectal way of expressing "the 'ö'" and "the 'å'", respectively.
- kzrdude 3y agoWouldn't "e" just be a contraction of "en" in this sentence? Is it "det" in the dialect?
- CRConrad 3y agoNo, you're right, it's "en": "...en å, och i ån är en ö". "Det" would be totally ungrammatical, dialect or no dialect.
- CRConrad 3y agoBut the 'e' doesn't precede any of the forms 'åa' or 'öa', but only the indeterminate 'å' and 'ö'. The 'e' is definitely 'en', not 'det'.
- CRConrad 3y agoThat seems to be (an expansion of) a little bit from a poem, Dumt fôlk by Gustaf Fröding: https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Dumt_f%C3%B4lk https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Dumt_f%C3%B4lk. But that only has "...e å, å i åa ä e ö" -- not the bit about "å i öa ä e å" from that tongue-twisters page, which seems to be a later addition. Ungrammatical, too: I'm sure even värmlänningar would say "på öa", not "i öa". (Oh, and "e" is of course a contraction of the indeterminate article "en", a/an.)