Svealand Swedish

Svealand Swedish

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.

* + IPA|/d/IPA| [ɖ]
* + IPA|/l/IPA| [ɭ]
* + IPA|/n/IPA| [ɳ]
* + IPA|/s/IPA| [ʂ]
* + IPA|/t/IPA| [ʈ]

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


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