Meldal dialect

Meldal dialect
Region	Meldal
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian Trøndersk Meldal dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Meldal dialect or Meldal Norwegian is a dialect of Norwegian used in Meldal. It is a variety of Trøndersk.

Phonology

Vowels

/iː/ is realized in a very original manner. It is a syllabic, palatalized frictionless dental approximant [ð̩ʲ˕ː]. This is realization is also found in some dialects of Swedish.^[1]^[2]
Old Norse diphthongs ⟨ei⟩ and ⟨øy⟩ are realized as long monophthongs [eː] and [øː]. This is the case in a large part of Sør-Trøndelag in general.^[2]

References

↑ Vanvik (1979), p. 14.
1 2 "dialekter i Sør-Trøndelag − Store norske leksikon". Retrieved 21 July 2015.

Bibliography

Vanvik, Arne (1979), Norsk fonetikk, Oslo: Universitetet i Oslo, ISBN 82-990584-0-6

External links

www.meldal.no - Dialekt

Norwegian language

Varieties

Written

Official	Bokmål Nynorsk

Unofficial	Høgnorsk Samnorsk Riksmål

West and south	Arendalsk Bergensk Sandnes-mål Sognamål Stavangersk Vestlandsk

East	Hallingmål-Valdris Vikværsk

Trøndersk	Meldal dialect Trondheimsk

North	Brønnøy dialect

Other	Kebabnorsk

Extinct	Dano-Norwegian Russenorsk (Russian–Norwegian pidgin)

Other topics

Institutions

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