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On 2024-09-02, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:

> Peter Moylan wrote:
>
>> Is there a natural tendency for languages to lose final syllables or
>> final consonants? This thread has provided examples in Spanish. French
>> lost a lot of final consonants (in speech, but not in writing) centuries
>> ago. Some southern Italian dialects have dropped a few final vowels, but
>> this does not extend to northern dialects or the mainstream version of
>> the language. Portuguese seems to drop all sorts of things.
>> 
>> Those are all examples in Romance languages. I can't think of any
>> examples in Germanic languages, and I don't know enough about other
>> language families.
>
> Spoken Danish drops as much as possible. "Synes" => "sys", "trapperne"
>=> "trappern", and there are many more examples.
>
> In dk.kultur.sprog (language) we joked with pronouncing
> "socialdemokratiet" with three syllables (it has 8).

Isn't there a Scandinavian joke to the effect that Danish drops all
the consonants & one of the others drops all the vowels, so it evens
out?


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