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Region
  
Stavanger

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Language family
  
Indo-EuropeanGermanicNorth GermanicWest ScandinavianSouth-West NorwegianStavangersk

Stavangersk, Stavanger dialect or Stavanger Norwegian (Norwegian: Stavangersk, Stavanger-dialekt (Bokmål) or Stavangerdialekt (Nynorsk)) is a dialect of Norwegian used in Stavanger.

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It is close to Nynorsk, yet the official written language of the Stavanger municipality is Bokmål.

Consonants

  • /n, t, d, l/ are alveolar [n, t, d, l].
  • As in Bergen and Oslo, younger speakers of the Stavanger dialect tend to merge /ç/ with /ʃ/.
  • /r/ is realized as a voiced uvular continuant, either a fricative [ʁ] or an approximant [ʁ̞]. It can be voiceless [χ] before a voiceless consonant or a pause.

    • Vowels

  • Long ⟨o⟩ (phonetically [uː]) and long ⟨u⟩ (phonetically [ʉː]) can be strongly diphthongized to, respectively, [əu] and [əʉ].
  • Short ⟨o⟩ is near-close central [ʊ̈].
  • Short ⟨u⟩ and long ⟨å⟩ are close-mid advanced back [o̟, o̟ː].
  • Short ⟨å⟩ is open-mid central [ɞ].
  • Long ⟨a⟩ is back [ɑː].
  • Short ⟨a⟩ has the quality of the cardinal vowel [a], which is the most anterior realization of this vowel in Norway.
  • The diphthong ⟨ai⟩ has a front starting point [æi].

    • Phonetic realization

    Phonetically, the tonemes of the Stavanger dialect are the same as those of Central Standard Swedish; accent 1 is falling, whereas accent 2 is double falling.

    References

    Stavangersk Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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