Brus wrote:
The Nynorn alphabet is listed in the first online lesson, but nowhere can I find the names of the letters. Has this been decided yet?
It's been under consideration (like many other things)
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Brus wrote:
The letter ð is almost always silent in Nynorn, but in some combinations (-rd) may be pronounced as d. So I suggest "edd" for Nynorn.
I agree with you, in fact this is what the letter is called in Faroese where it's also silent.
Brus wrote:
But å is pronounced identical to o, so what to do? I suggest "ring-å".
Ljun wrote:
Ipsilon should be spelled 'ypsilon' in Nynorn as well as y = i
ring-å is called 'bolle-å' in Danish (don't know about Norwegian/Swedish), but a ring is 'bjog' in (Ny-)Norn so 'bjog-å' would probably be more 'original'.
Another option is to use the Faroese convention, where "y" is "seinna i", "ý" - "seinna í", "æ" - "seinna a" (seinna = latter). I think it makes sense. We could then call "å" "senni/senere a" and "y" "senni/senere i".
(I'm still undecided about the comparative degree of
sen 'late').