Icelandic phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Icelandic phonology


00:00:40 1 Consonants
00:00:59 1.1 Major allophones
00:02:59 1.2 Alternations
00:04:02 1.3 Restrictions
00:04:10 1.3.1 Dorsal consonants (velar, palatal, glottal)
00:07:06 1.3.2 Alveolar non-sibilant fricatives
00:07:52 1.3.3 Voiceless sonorants
00:08:39 1.3.4 Palatal and velar nasals
00:09:12 1.4 Aspiration and length contrasts (medial and final)
00:10:32 1.5 Phonemes
00:17:24 2 Vowels
00:18:27 2.1 Vowel length



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Unlike many languages, Icelandic has only very minor dialectal differences in sounds. The language has both monophthongs and diphthongs, and many consonants can be voiced or unvoiced.
Icelandic has an aspiration contrast between plosives, rather than a voicing contrast, similar to Standard Chinese. Preaspirated voiceless stops are also common. However, fricative and sonorant consonant phonemes exhibit regular contrasts in voice, including in nasals (rare in the world's languages). Additionally, length is contrastive for consonants, but not vowels. In Icelandic, the main stress is always on the first syllable.