Editing Elision (section)

===Icelandic===

Elision ({{lang|is|brottfall}}) is common in [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]]. There are a variety of rules for its occurrence,<ref name="Der WWW2-Webserver — Web-Support des Computer- und Medienservice">{{cite web | title=BRAGI: framburður: regla 19 > "Brottföll" | website=Der WWW2-Webserver — Web-Support des Computer- und Medienservice | url=http://www2.hu-berlin.de/bragi/b5/reglur/b5regla_19_brottfoll.htm | language=is | access-date=2017-05-13}}</ref> but the most notable is the loss of trailing consonants in common particles as well as the merger of similar vowel sounds. For example, the ubiquitous {{lang|is|ég er að}} (verb) structure ("I am verb-ing") becomes transformed to {{lang|is|éra}} (verb); the full particles is spoken only when a person is sounding the sentence out word by word.  Another noteworthy and extremely common example along this line includes the phrase {{lang|is|er það ekki?}} ("really?"), which is pronounced as {{lang|is|erþakki}}. A common example of internal consonant loss in Icelandic is {{lang|is|gerðu svo vel}} ("here you go", "please"),  pronounced {{lang|is|gjersovel}} (the hidden {{lang|is|j}} sound is unrelated to the elision and occurs when a {{IPA|/kʰ/}} or {{IPA|/k/}} precedes {{IPA|/ɛ, i, ɪ, ai/}}). Another special case of elision is the loss of {{IPA|/θ/}} from the start of {{lang|is|þetta}} ("this", "that"), which is sometimes pronounced {{lang|is|etta}} ({{lang|is|hvað er þetta}} (what is this?) -> {{lang|is|hvaretta?}}). The pronunciation of the full word tends to lay emphasis on it ("What is ''this''?") while the elision of the word leads to its deemphasis ("''What'' is this?"). The loss of the {{IPA|/θ/}} in {{lang|is|þetta}} is similar to how {{IPA|/ð/}} can be lost in "that" and "this" when asking a question and speaking swiftly in English.