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↑Sweden Swedish [/ɧ/] varies regionally and is sometimes [x], [ɸ], or [ʂ].
↑[/r/] varies considerably in different dialects: it is pronounced alveolar or similarly (a trilledr when articulated clearly or in slow or formal speech; in normal speech, usually a tappedr or an alveolar approximant) in virtually all dialects (most consistently [[r]] in Finland), but in South Swedish dialects, it is uvular, similar to the Parisian French r. At the beginning of a syllable, it can also be pronounced as a fricative [ʐ], similar to in English genre or vision.
1234Before [/r/], the quality of non-high front vowels is changed: the unrounded vowels [/ɛ/] and [/ɛː/] are lowered to [æ] and [æː] (except certain instances of unstressed [/ɛ/]), whereas the rounded [/œ/] ([œ̫˔]) and [/øː/] are lowered to open-mid [œ̫] and [œ̫]. For simplicity, no distinction is made between the mid [[œ˔]] and the open-mid [[œ]], with both being transcribed as ⟨[œ]⟩. Note that younger speakers use lower allophones [ɶ] (which they tend to merge with [/ɵ/] into [ɵ̞]) and [ɶː].
123456789101112In Sweden, [[[Βοήθεια:Οδηγός προφοράς IPA|[[ɔ], [o̫], [œ̫˔], [œ̫], [ø̫], [ʏ̫], [y̫]]]]] are protruded vowels, while [[[Βοήθεια:Οδηγός προφοράς IPA|[[ɵ̞], [ʏ̈], [ʏ͍], [ʊ͍], [u͍]]]]] are compressed. Instead, [[[Βοήθεια:Οδηγός προφοράς IPA|[[œ͍], [œ͍], [ø͍], [ø͍], [ʉ], [ʉː], [y͍], [y͍]]]]] are compressed, while only [[[Βοήθεια:Οδηγός προφοράς IPA|[[o̞], [o̞], [u̫], [u̫]]]]] are protruded in Finland. This makes Finland Swedish [[y]] and [[yː]] sound closer to Sweden Swedish [[ʉ]] and [[ʉː]], which are also fronted, rather than to their respective counterparts.
↑[ɵ̞] and [ʏ̈] are the Sweden Swedish unstressed allophones of a single phoneme [/ɵ/] (stressed [/ɵ/] is always realized as [[ɵ]]):
12The distinction between compressed [ʏ͍] and protruded [y̫] is particularly difficult to hear for non-native speakers:
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↑Consonants always tend to geminate after a stressed short vowel in Sweden Swedish. In Finland, this is not always true and between vowels usually only happens when the short vowel is followed by an orthographic geminate.