[gothic-l] Gutamål

[malmqvist52 at YAHOO.SE]

Hi everyone,

I also discovered this homepage:
http://www.guteinfo.com/special/gutamal.htm

It doesn't sound to me that they would be Stockholm-biassed. It looks 
like written by serious "gotlänningar"
One quote:
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Ännu äldre skriftliga dokument på gutamål är ca. 300 runinskrifter. 
Här upptäcker man, att språket inte skiljer sig särskilt mycket från 
de äldre svenska runstenarnas språk. Då hade svenskan ännu kvar 
diftongerna ai och au. OBS! att bokstaven u oftast betecknar ljudet o 
i gutamål! (Diftong kallas en förbindelse av två vokalljud i samma 
stavelse.) Man sa raisa stain i stället för resa sten, kaupa i 
stället för köpa, men redan på 1200-talet ser man i landskapslagarna, 
att de enkla vokalerna slagit igenom.
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A translation of this is:
"Even older written documents on "gutamål is about 300 runic 
inscriptions. Here you discover that the language doesn't differ very 
much from the language of the older swedish runestones.  Then the 
swedish still had the diftongs ai and au. remark! that the letter u  
most often stands for the sound o in "gutamål"! ( Diftong is called a 
connection of two vocal sounds in the same syllable.) You said "raisa 
stain" instead of resa sten, kaupa instead of "köpa", but already in 
the thirteenth century can you see in the landscape laws that the 
simple vocals had gained power." 

Best wishes
Anders Malmqvist,
Gothenburg 


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