Swedish Dialect Alphabet
The Swedish Dialect Alphabet (Swedish: Landsmålsalfabetet) is a phonetic alphabet created in 1878 by Johan August Lundell and used for the narrow transcription of Swedish dialects. The alphabet consists of 118 characters, in which each sign denotes a sound of the Swedish language. Many of them are not included in Unicode.
In 2007, a proposal was made to encode 106 characters from the Swedish Dialect Alphabet into Unicode.[1] As of 2013, this proposal is still outstanding.
References
- Manne Eriksson, Svensk ljudskrift 1878–1960 : En översikt över det svenska landsmålsalfabetets utveckling och användning huvudsakligen i tidskriften Svenska Landsmål (1961)
- ↑ Michael Everson (2008-11-27). "Exploratory proposal to encode Germanicist, Nordicist, and other phonetic characters in the UCS". ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
See also
Further reading
- Lundell, J. A. (1928). "The Swedish dialect alphabet". Studia Neophilologica 1 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1080/00393272808586721.
External links
- Landsmålsalfabetet pronunciation symbols
- "Landsmålsalfabetet", Nordisk familjebok, volume 15 (1911) 1044, 1045–6, 1047–8.
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