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Swenglish


Swenglish is a colloquial term meaning either:

Swedish is characterised by a strong word stress and phrase prosody that differs from that of English. When Swedish prosody is used in English speech, it makes it sound more melodic, and this is even more apparent when Swedish stress patterns are used on English words. This is one of the most apparent causes of Swenglish.

There are words that are similar in meaning and pronunciation, that have different stress patterns. For example, verbs that end with -era in Swedish are often French loanwords, where the French word ends with a stressed -er. The Swedish word gets its stress point at the same place, but this is not true in English. A native Swedish speaker might mispronounce generate as [dʒɛnəˈɹeɪt] by following the pattern of the Swedish generera ([jɛnɛˈreːra]).

Swedish lacks many common English phonemes. These are sometimes replaced by similar-sounding Swedish phonemes, or other English phonemes that are easier to pronounce. Standard Swedish does not have any diphthong vowels, but many more monophthong vowels than English. For example, when using the nearest Swedish vowels for the English words "beer" and "bear", a native Swedish speaker might pronounce both as [beːr]. In general, Swenglish will sound very articulated, due to Swedish vowels being more strongly articulated and not as often reduced to schwas.

Swedish also lacks some consonant phonemes common in English, such as voiceless dental fricative /θ/, which is typically realized as labiodental [f] or a voiceless dental stop [], leading to "three" being pronounced as "free" or "tree". Other missing consonants include voiced dental fricative /ð/, which is typically realized as a voiced dental stop []), voiced alveolar fricative /z/, which is typically realized voicelessly [s] and voiced palato-alveolar fricative //, which is realized voicelessly [], somewhat more back [], or as a voiced palatal approximant [j] or fricative [ʝ].


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