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Swedish language has tones?
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>>62163821
No, but we have pitches.
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>>62163821
No, but it does have a beautiful alphabet.
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>>62163821
what's tones?
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>>62163956
Pretty rich coming from France
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>>62165697
CATCHOM
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>>62165670
It's when "a.", "a?" and "a!" and "a..." are different words. Complete madness tb͏h fa͏m͏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFwF297Q4bA
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>>62165792
ohhhh

i get it know. i think portuguese has these things
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>>62165670
Using intonation to actually distinguish meaning of words. Like saying the syllable "ma" one way to mean "horse", and in another intonation to mean "trouble"
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>>62165813
No it doesn't
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>>62165813
ã á à ä

like these?
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>>62163956
>from fucking france, thirld-world shithole with attacks every month

kek
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No. It has two pitch accents. The first being your standard "flat" accent where the first syllable is higher pitched than the second, and the other being where both the first and second syllables are stressed equally.
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>>62163821
It is a pitch accent language, which isn't nearly as bad as tone. Japanese is another pitch accent language.

>>62163956
Mandatory diacritics when?
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>pitch
>tone

literally no idea what these mean in the context of languages
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Funfact: Swedish has 50 words for anus, but not even 1 word for nigger.
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>>62165785
Beep beep
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>>62166130
Very simple. English only has 1 tones (the level tone), so it is an atonal language. If a language had more than the level tone, they became a tonal language.
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>>62166210
neger
svartskalle
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>>62166610
48 to go
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>>62165952
>japanese is pitch accent language
>a friend asked me about pitch accent
my dialect doesn't have pitch accent!!!!!!
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>>62166487
That's not what it is, nigger. English uses intonation to express some information such as affirmation, interrogation, surprise, etc. Having tones is when changing the tone on a word can change its lexical meaning. So, "ma" in Chinese can be horse or mother or something else depending on the tone used.
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>>62166680
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>>62166768
I knew. My language has tones.
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croatian is tonal for some ungodly reason
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>>62167338
what about serbian?
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>>62166768
We tonal language now.

>klop with wide o means tick
>klop with tight o means bench
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Did you know Swedish has a strange sucking sound?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URgdIAz4QNg
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>>62167404
it's the same language
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>>62167409
>wide
>tight

you mean vowel length? it's not tones
in the word Slovenija the /e/ sound is pronounced in the falling tone
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>>62167415
hey momci u plavom
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>>62167451
That's the tight e or whatever you want to call it.
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>>62167409
>tight o
You mean that weird u sound that Germans consider to be the long o?
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>>62167527
...so you mean tenseness? as in German?

tenseness =/= tones =/= length
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I used the wrong word in the previous post. It should be narrow o and e, not tight.

>>62167538
You mean ü? No, it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel

>>62167569
I don't know what tenseness means in this context.
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>>62167907
Okay, it could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_back_rounded_vowel. They sound the same to me.
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/e/, /ɛ/
/o/, /ɔ/
These might have the change of the pitch a bit but it's not the distinction about pitch but wide or narrow.
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>>62167907
No, I mean /u/ as in "drugi". Same with [e] than suddenly sounds more like /i/:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel
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>>62167409
It's not quite the same thing, since you're just changing the vowel sound there. It's kind of like how most European languages use rising tone to indicate a question, so that the following two sentences sound exactly the same but have different tones:

>you're going to the store
>you're going to the store?

Except that in tonal languages, tones change the meanings of single words (so imagine that "store" and "store?" meant completely different things).
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>>62163956
Nice.
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>>62166768
DESIGNATED
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like others have said we have a pitch accent like japanese, also just like japanese there are some dialects (fenno-swedish in particular) that do not use pitch accents at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXp7_Sjgm34
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>>62163923
same here
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>>62169686

So the grave account is the source of the snobby sound of Swedish
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>>62163821

Yeah, darker tones.
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>>62163956
t. EU's mudslime HQ
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>>62169770
you mean the singing trait of the beautiful swedish language?
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ITT fucking baboons have never heard of tones and don't know what the fuck they are
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>>62169886
I would describe swedish more like a yodel of flamboyant faggots
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>>62167338
It's not, Croatian has pitch accent.
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>>62170078
Don't be mad funland.
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>>62167413
It's because the north are inspired by the finnish autism.
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>>62170401
Just pointing out the fact
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>>62169686
Same pitch accent but the way seems to differ from language to language
Japanese have a core where pitch changes in words
Idk in detail because my dialect doesn't have pitch accent
https://youtu.be/CDkt7PqAQoE
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>>62170508
Fakt: Svenska är vackrare än finska
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>>62170585
jaja kötbullarna
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>>62170585
Homo
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>>62170585
why do Swedes have such long faces?
Do they all have long faces?
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>>62171247
yes, long face is germanic trait
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>>62170643
>>62170774
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>>62171247

This man, Nalle, is 100% Finnish. He is descended from Karelians vikings just like Rurik the founder of Russia.

>>62171328

Wrong, Finnish trait.
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>>62168143
Okay so I presume that the "weird u" you mentioned is the sound made in the German word Boot (submarine). That's the narrow o in Slovene.
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>>62163821
Is Swedish easier to learn than say French or Spanish?
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>>62171580
i dont know but i can tell you that Swedish sounds a lot better than Spanish or French
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>>62171622
Yea i think so too.
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>>62171580
Yes, especially if you already know English, German, Dutch or any Nordic language.
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>>62171977
>nordic
Germanic
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>>62171580
Since you know english it's probably not that difficult.
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>>62171328
Then how the hell did I end up with a short, wide face? Could it be my Finnish ancestry?
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>>62169813
haha XD
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>>62172116
yes, short fat faces is finnish trait
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>>62171580

french and spanish are easier, they have the advantage of having a lot of easily available media to immerse yourself in

when i was dating a swedish guy i bought a dictionary to surprise him with a few sentences but it didn't help at all
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>>62172178
I might as well rev up some memma and change my name to Väinö at this point.
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>>62172116
im sorry, you are a fingoloid my friend
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>>62171622
>>62171977
>>62172031
>>62172179
Thanks for the responses.
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>>62170585
>>62170643
>>62170774
bög i kök :DDDDDDD
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>>62172178

Wrong

see >>62171428
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>>62166210

Let's see which ones I can remember.
Rövhål, Daimkryss, Ärsle, brunhål, Oboy-ring.

Let me know if you think of any more
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>>62163923
What is pitches? Like how 'anden' can mean both 'the spirit' and 'the duck' depending on your rythm when you say it?
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>>62172389
Rektum, fisring, bajan.
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>>62170333
>>62167338
explain
what does it mean?
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>>62172451
That's pitch accent. Akut and grav accent in Swedish.
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>>62167338
it's pitch like swedish

gore = up
gore = mountains
gore = they burn

depending on the pitch
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>>62172389
>oboyring
vafan lol aldrig hört den
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>>62172580

So Hitler was right all along and you're not Slavs?
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>>62172615
yes, we're actually a lost ancient finnish tribe
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>>62172580
yeah and how pica can mean pizza and pussy
>gore gore gore neg sto gore gore gore
is a legit sentence
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>>62171328
my brother has a long face (pic related) and i have a wide face
what does it mean?
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>>62172580
Gori na gori gori.
Up on the mountain it burns.
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>>62172762
Gore gore gore gore
The mountains on top burn worse

>>62172697
English has
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

The word meaning in that is retrieved purely from context and word order though.
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>>62172932

Swedish only has one of these that i can think of

Får får får?
Nej, får får lamm
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>>62172742
I have a long face and my brother has a wide one. Our mother is a Finn. What does it mean?
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>>62173441
>>62172742
it means you don't understand the difference between genotypes an phenotypes
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There are broad and long faces too not just broad / long. Shit-tier racebiologists on here desu.
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>>62173441

Why the long face?
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>>62173546
so in short, i herited the wide face from my father and my brother long face from my mother?
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>>62173739
You have to include all your grandparents polack.
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>>62173802
why the polack though? fuck off
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>>62173832
You said fingoloid either, so polack for you my man.
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>>62173885
i didnt know you would take offense lol
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>>62163956
>France

Okey, dude! OKAY!
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>>62172577
Ah I see. I can only think of two (tomten and anden) but I'm sure there are more
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