top | item 44488234 (no title) 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? discuss order hn newest 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
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.
dijit|7 months ago
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