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lrasinen | 7 months ago

Wikipedia lists both "cat" and the Finnish "mäki" under æ: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vo...

Do you have some example words that would show the difference?

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dijit|7 months ago

Well, mostly hearing people say the words will be telling.

Gävle in Sweden: https://forvo.com/word/g%C3%A4vle/

Linnanmäki in Finland: 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|7 months ago

That's an american cat then, because that sounds crazy to my ears