Talk:Norwegian phonology

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Native Norwegian speaker here. On the David Jones recordings, ø is the cardinal vowel 11 /œ/, and I am unable to accurately reproduce cardinal vowel 10 /ø/, as well as finding it hard to distinguish it from /e/ and /y/ (it would pass as a dialectal variation of the letter e with no difficulty). Is this an error in Jones' pronounciation of the secondary vowels, or an error in this article, or a difference between Standard Østnorsk and what is spoken elsewhere? It'd draw a laugh around here (western norway) to hear "ø" rendered that way. (I double-checked with a female speaker from eastern norway, who also failed to recognize Jones' /ø/ as ø, but could easily recognize Jones' /œ/ as ø.) 88.90.141.213 22:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)