Talk:Icelandic orthography

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Under construction... please help out.--Sonjaaa 21:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Should this page be renamed to Icelandic pronunciation or Icelandic phonology?--Sonjaaa 21:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Should I be using [ ] or / / in this article?--Sonjaaa 22:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

If you're doing actual pronunciation and phonetic ranges of each grapheme (which seems to be what you're doing, with the focus is still very much on the orthography at this point, n'est-ce pas?), it's probably best to go with the square brackets [ ]. As for the other question, I think Icelandic orthography works for the page as it is now, but if you're going to be expanding the page to include more phonetics and stuff, then perhaps a change to Icelandic phonology would be appropriate at that time. Many of the "language phonologies" pages focus more on the phonemes and phonetic realisations, leaving orthographic representations to another article (Irish phonology and my page on Ubykh phonology are both like this).

...now look at what you've done, I want to go and create an Abkhaz phonology page now. Grr! Thefamouseccles 10:00, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Are the two vowels in sími "phone" the same quality?--Sonjaaa 16:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

No. It is [ˈsi:mɪ] Stefán 17:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)