Author: diz
Date: 2005-07-14 01:27
Tony:
tony pay said "Franz Bruggen telling me something else about Norwegian: that Norwegian is much more 'about' vowels than about consonants -- and immediately, when he told me that, I wondered whether unvoiced consonants, for a seafaring nation, would disappear too readily into the hiss of the sea"
Fascinating (I speak Danish and had never, until now, wondered why those Scandinavian tongues are so 'vowel' intensive). I rang a friend, who is a linguist and PhD in English ... his comment was that there are gaelic parts of Scottland (the islands) where old norse was spoken at sea in preference to Gaelic ... and if you've ever heard Gaelic spoken you'll understand.
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