Norwegian Self-Taught By the Natural Method: With Phonetic Pronunciation (Classic Reprint)

The A lphabet, with Phonetic Pronunciation. The Norwegian Alphabet consists of 28 letters, as follows :P honetics Ch mctera. Name and Emliah Pronunciation, med. A, a ... (ah) has two sounds, viz.: Long, like a in farm, as dalen (dahlera) ... ... ah A similar sounfl, but shorter, i.e. not dwelt upon, :when followed by two consonants, as in sand (sahn) aft B, b... (beh), as in English ,.... .b C, c... (seh) is used only in worda of foreign origin :it is hard or soft;.e.g. Canova (kaftnaw-vaft), cement (segment) ... ... ... s, kD, d... (deh).as in English ... ... d Silent in many words after a long vowel, as in blod (bloh), and when final after I, n, and r, these consonants being then pronounced long; after nin the middle of words before sand t, as in landsmand (laftns-maftn), kaandtere (hawntehrer); also before $in some words, as bedst (best); and always silent before ing, as blanding (bla Anning). E, e.... (eh) is (1) Long like a in care, e.g.ler(flehr) ... eh (2) Short like ein pen, as pest (pest) ... o.en (3) Before rit is invariably pronounced like a in earn, as berg (barrg) ... !.. ft. eg often sounds like ai in rain, asjeg (yai), and always. when followed by n, as in regn, (rain). (4) Final eis lightly pronounced and always short, as in shape (skahper) ... .. er T he personal pronoun De is pronounced dee. P, f... (ef) as in English fG, g... (gliek) is (1) Like gin go, as gud (good), etc., and in foreign words before e, i, ce, y, t, ei, and pi ... g, gh Hand rla Italics la I ns phonetics are not to bo hoard; they ars merely added to give the d Mid ao- -1 -- --1- .....t.. ,...,. t.,- t. lies la tue phonetics are not to be hoard; they are merely added oq Qdto the Towel to which the; are attached, ebeing fcro- bat hall as long onlv. r shorter thau or and the rig mat.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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