Meldal dialect

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Region Meldal		Glottolog None
Language family Indo-EuropeanGermanicNorth GermanicWest ScandinavianTrønderskMeldal dialect

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

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.

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.

References

Meldal dialect Wikipedia

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