👉 In the context of linguistics and phonetics, "botein" is a term used to describe a non-standard or irregular pronunciation in a language. It can refer to both a specific sound (like "ni" in Norwegian) and an overall pattern of sounds that are unusual or not typical for the language. Boteins occur when a vowel sound is repeated in a word, producing a different sound than expected. For example, "bott" is botein because it has two