Svealand Swedish

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Svealand Swedish (in Swedish: Sveamål) is one of the major grouping of Swedish dialects, clearly distinguished from Finland-Swedish and the Swedish spoken in Southern Sweden.

A major characteristic of Svealand Swedish 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 bod — bord, i.e. "shed" — "table"). This feature is also found in Oslo Norwegian and in some dialects of Scottish Gaelic.

/r/ + /d/ → [ɖ]
/r/ + /l/ → [ɭ]
/r/ + /n/ → [ɳ]
/r/ + /s/ → [ʂ]
/r/ + /t/ → [ʈ]

One high-status variety of Swedish, that of the capital region of Stockholm–Uppsala, sometimes ambiguously designated as rikssvenska, belongs to Svealand Swedish.