Kjell (letter)
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The letter kjell was proposed as a new letter of the Norwegian alphabet in 2005. This was a humorous proposal to promote the prescriptively correct pronunciation of the voiceless palatal fricative (IPA: [ç]), which is written <kj> in standard orthography, and oppose the growing tendency to pronounce it as a voiceless postalveolar fricative (IPA: [ʃ]) or voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant (IPA: [ɕ]), written <sj> or <skj>, as the first sound in the word skjorte ("shirt"; IPA: /ʃuʈə/).
The voiceless palatal fricative ([ç]) is unstable in many Norwegian dialects, and is disappearing from the speech of young people; younger speakers in Bergen, Stavanger and Oslo even merge /ç/ into the voiceless retroflex sibilant /ʂ/.[1]
The proposal for the new letter was created by design agency SDG and presented by Petter Schjerven in the television program Typisk norsk (Typical Norwegian). A similar glyph had been used before for /ç/ in the Norwegian phonetic transcription Norvegia, which has roots dating back to 1884.
References
- ↑ Kristofferson, Gjert (2000). The Phonology of Norwegian. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-19-823765-5. Search this book on
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