Meldal dialect

Meldal Norwegian
Meldal Norwegian
Region	Meldal
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Northwest Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian Norwegian Trøndersk Meldal Norwegian; ; ; ; ; ; ;
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

/iː/ is a syllabic, palatalized dental approximant [ð̩ʲ˕ː]. This is realization is also found in some dialects of Swedish.^[2]^[3]
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.^[3]

^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Older Runic". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-11-13. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
^ Vanvik (1979), p. 14.
^ a b "dialekter i Sør-Trøndelag − Store norske leksikon". Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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

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