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Norwegian (bokmal)
I'm new to Swedish and I've heard that often the "i" and the "y" are pronounced as if the tongue was stuck on the roof of the mouth. Does this sound have a name, and do you have any tips on how to make it?
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I don’t know if there’s a name for the sounds I and Y. Let me just show you how I say ITALIEN , IS, INTE, RIS,
YTA, TYG, YXA, YLLE
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- Swedish
They are both called front near-closed vowels. The tongue if rather stuck to the "floor", not the ceiling
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there is something called Lidingö-i, As a speaker of a more northern swedish dialect, I think the Stockholm 'i' can sound a bit like you described it with the high tounge. In the Bohuslän- dialect you can hear the same type of I
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