LINGUIST List 6.548

Wed 12 Apr 1995

FYI: Mod Old Norse, EXCHANGE, Textual Studies, Moscow Ling J.

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1. Jardar Eggesbx Abrahamsen, Modern Old Norse
2. heidi shetzer, EXCHANGE WWW ESL/EFL MAGAZINE
3. Mike Fraser, CTI Textual Studies List
4. APLD, About The Moscow Linguistic Journal

About one week ago Norwegian newspapers informed the public about a small
village ("bygd") in Norway which had been isolated probably since the
"Black Death" (Svartedauden) i 1349. The village was discovered one year
ago in the area Jotunheimen, but it has been kept secret until now. The
villagers call their village Lignarhalsinn and their language Lignarmal.
Linguists have done research on the language in the village, and the first
report was published in the latest edition of Norsk Lingvistisk
Tidsskrift.

The main points are:

1. svarabhakti

Strong verbs have the svarabhakti vowel /a/ in 2. and 3. pers. sg. pres.
Masculine nouns a- and i-stems do not have svarabhakti in nom. sg., but
u-steams do:

Old Norse: Lignarmal: Modern Norwegian (English):
kemr kemar kjem (comes)
dagr dagr dag (day)
vinr vinr ven (friend)
fjordhr fjordhar fjord (fjord)

2. no palatalization:

Velars have not in any case been palatalized before front vowels or /j/.
After velars /j/ has been dropped.

Old Norse: Lignarmal: Mod. Norw.:
kyn kin kjoenn (sex)
tryggja trigga tryggja (to secure)

3. morphology:

All cases have been preseved in nouns (nom, acc, gen, dat), but in
adjectives the gen. sg. has become -as in all three genders (probably
from m./n. -s plus a svarabhakti vowel).
Verbs of the o-conjugation have -at- instead of -adh- in past tense.

4. prosody:

No toneme opposition.
Short vowels have become long in syllables with long consonantism.
Long vowels have become short in syllables with long consonantism, except
diphtongs.

5. delabialization

/y/) /i/

Jardar
 --
 Jardar Eggesboe Abrahamsen | Stokkanhaugen 104 | Lygnina fyrstu
 student of | N-7048 Trondheim | laug Loki
 Nordic languages | | thessum degi a.
http://www.nvg.unit.no/~jardar | jardarnvg.unit.no | (Min saga Lygntungu)

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