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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Swedish and Norwegian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. The accents that are used here as models are Central Standard Swedish and Standard Eastern Norwegian.
See Swedish phonology and Norwegian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of these languages. Examples in the table are both Swedish and Norwegian unless otherwise noted.
Tone 1 / acute accent: • Single stress with single falling tone in Stockholm: [ˈânːdɛn] • Low tone in Oslo: [ˈrɑ̀ːnɑ] • Falling tone in western Norway: [ˈrɑ̂ːnɑ]
Tone 2 / grave accent: • Double stress with double falling tone in Stockholm: [ˈânːˈdɛ̂n] • Falling-rising tone in Oslo: [ˈrɑ̂ːˈnɑ̌] • Rising-falling tone in western Norway: [ˈrɑ̌ːˈnɑ̂]
Notes
^ abcdefIn many of the dialects that have an apicalrhotic consonant, a recursive Sandhi process of retroflexion occurs wherein clusters of /r/ and dental consonants /rd/, /rl/, /rn/, /rs/, /rt/ produce retroflex consonant realizations: [ɖ], [ɭ], [ɳ], [ʂ], [ʈ]. In dialects with a guttural R, such as Southern Swedish and many Southern and Western Norwegian dialects, these are [ʁd], [ʁl], [ʁn], [ʁs], [ʁt].
^Swedish /ɧ/ is a regionally variable sound, sometimes [xʷ], [ɸˠ], or [ʂ]
^/r/ varies considerably in different dialects, being alveolar in some dialects and uvular in others.
^ abcCite error: The named reference rhotic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
