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13-464: South Swedish dialects (Swedish: sydsvenska mål ) is one of the main dialect groups of Swedish . It includes the closely related dialects spoken in the formerly Danish but since 1658 Swedish traditional provinces of Scania (see Scanian dialects ), Blekinge and southern Halland , as well as in the southern parts of Småland , which are the remains of an old dialect continuum between Danish and Swedish. The phonology of South Swedish dialects

26-416: A following dental consonant. Although denti-alveolar consonants are often described as dental, it is the point of contact farthest to the back that is most relevant, defines the maximum acoustic space of resonance and gives a characteristic sound to a consonant. In French , the contact that is farthest back is alveolar or sometimes slightly pre-alveolar. Dental/denti-alveolar consonants as transcribed by

39-453: Is generally associated with more dental articulations of coronal consonants. Thus, velarized consonants, such as Albanian /ɫ/ , tend to be dental or denti-alveolar, and non-velarized consonants tend to be retracted to an alveolar position. Sanskrit , Hindustani and all other Indo-Aryan languages have an entire set of dental stops that occur phonemically as voiced and voiceless and with or without aspiration. The nasal /n/ also exists but

52-422: Is influenced by Danish. Examples are the use of a uvular trills (rather than alveolar trills ) and "softening" of certain consonants. This Sweden -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about Germanic languages is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Swedish dialects The linguistic definition of a Swedish traditional dialect , in

65-600: Is quite alveolar and apical in articulation. To native speakers, the English alveolar /t/ and /d/ sound more like the corresponding retroflex consonants of their languages than like dentals. Spanish /t/ and /d/ are denti-alveolar , while /l/ and /n/ are prototypically alveolar but assimilate to the place of articulation of a following consonant. Likewise, Italian /t/ , /d/ , /t͡s/ , /d͡z/ are denti-alveolar ( [t̪] , [d̪] , [t̪͡s̪] , and [d̪͡z̪] respectively) and /l/ and /n/ become denti-alveolar before

78-554: Is the coalescence of the alveolar trill with following dental and alveolar consonants — also over word-boundaries — that transforms them into retroflex consonants that in some cases reduces the distinction between words (as for instance vana — varna , i.e. "habit" — "warn"). This feature is also found in East Norwegian , North Swedish and in some dialects of Scottish Gaelic . The following dialect groups are sometimes classified as "Swedish" in

91-672: The tongue contacts the gum ridge. Dental consonants share acoustic similarity and in the Latin script are generally written with consistent symbols (e.g. t , d , n ). In the International Phonetic Alphabet , the diacritic for dental consonant is U+ 032A ◌̪ COMBINING BRIDGE BELOW . When there is no room under the letter, it may be placed above, using the character U+ 0346 ◌͆ COMBINING BRIDGE ABOVE , such as in / p͆ /. For many languages, such as Albanian , Irish and Russian , velarization

104-486: The broadest sense (North Scandinavian): Dalecarlian is intermediate in some respects between East and West Scandinavian . Scanian , a dialect of East Danish , is South Scandinavian, along with Danish , East Danish , and Jutish . Dental consonant A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as /θ/ , /ð/ . In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants , in which

117-629: The dialects in Härjedalen, Northwestern Jämtland and Northwestern Dalarna. Dialects often show similarities along traditional travelling routes such as the great rivers in Northern Sweden, which start in the mountains at the Norwegian border and then follow a South-Easterly path towards the Bothnian Sea . The grey area does not have any independently developed Swedish dialect. Here is a summary of some of

130-725: The literature merely called 'dialect', is a local variant that has not been heavily influenced by Standard Swedish and that can trace a separate development back to Old Norse . Many of the genuine rural dialects have very distinct phonetic and grammatical features, such as plural forms of verbs or archaic case inflections. These dialects can be nearly incomprehensible to most Swedes, and most of their speakers are also fluent in Standard Swedish. The different dialects are often so localized that they are limited to individual parishes and are referred to by Swedish linguists as sockenmål (lit. "parish speech"). They are generally separated into

143-695: The most important differences between the major groups. Note that this table does not hold for the distinct (dotted) or transitional (striped) areas. Götaland dialects are mostly used in Västergötland , Dalsland , northern Halland , northern Småland and Östergötland although they are also heard in Bohuslän , Värmland (a special case, in many ways), and Öland . Examples of Götaland dialect features are vowel reduction , vowel shortening in front of endings and loss of -r in suffixes (as in hästa' ( hästar = horses)). A characteristic of Svealand dialects

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156-558: The six major groups above. The areas west of the core for Norrland dialects, west of Svealand dialects and north of Götaland dialects are related to each of these, respectively, indicated by the colour of the dots. Samples from these areas: Jämtland, Föllinge socken (related to Norrland dialects), Dalarna, Älvdalens socken (related to Svealand dialects) and Värmland, Nordmarks härad, Töcksmarks socken (related to Götaland dialects). The dialects of this category have in common that they all show more or less strong Norwegian influences, especially

169-399: The six traditional dialect groups, with common characteristics of prosody, grammar and vocabulary. The color represents the core area and the samples are from Svenska Dagbladet ' s dialect project. The areas with mixed colors as stripes are transitional areas. The parts in yellow with coloured dots represent various distinct dialect areas which are not easily defined as belonging to any of

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