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iv. education and . mental culture.
Starting from this and with great support from the material and experience
collected by the associations aforesaid, J. A. Lundell (born 1851) worked out,
in 1878, a phonetic alphabet for the dialects of Sweden, in order to exhibit
faithfully the sounds of the national language. The next year he commenced
the great magazine "Nyare bidrag till kännedomen om de svenska landsmålen
och svenskt folklif" (Recent contributions to the knowledge of dialects and
folk-life in Sweden), and he still remains the editor of that work. In this
publication, unique of its kind, a great quantity of important philological and
folkloristic papers have seen the day. The dialect-societies having gradually
dwindled down, new organizations were formed in Uppsala, on the initiative
of A. Erdmann (born 1843), with the intention of gathering linguistic and
folkloristic material. These new endeavours in dialect-study were especially intended
to furnish a map of the dialects of the country. Rich and new collections have
been brought together in this manner, among others from the districts of Upper
Sweden, which, though scarcely known in point of language until then, yet have
a distinct bearing on its history. The sounds and sound-system of cultivated
Swedish have been described in works of high merit by J. A. Lyttkens (born
1844), and F. A. Wulff (born 1845).
Adolf Noreen.
These studies of the spoken language, combined with the application of the
historic and comparative method, have supplied us with our present knowledge
of the conditions and the development through the ages of the sound-system of
Scandinavian in general and Swedish in particular. Several seniors in the
present generation of students have devoted their best efforts to this
department, and quite an array of younger powers have also been active in it.
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