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The author seems to be from Finland, so I wonder if it's a difference between "normal" Swedish and Finnish Swedish (finlandssvenska)



It's "stjärna" in both, it is just pronounced a bit differently.


The Finnish form of Swedish resembles how Swedish was like a hundred years a go.

"Skjorta" (a shirt) uses the pronunciation described in the article, but was earlier pronounced as "Skiorta" which I believe is the form used in Finland. Same thing with "Stjärna" (a star) which was formerly pronounced "Stierna".

On the other hand, I was born a Norwegian so I could be all wrong :) Norwegians have a special relationship with "kj"-sounds -- which the younger generation is avoiding. Youngsters are actually replacing the hard "kj" with the soft sound described in the article.


Stierna is closer to proto-indo-european. :)




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