Arendalsk, Arendal dialect or Arendal Norwegian (

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Arendal Arendal () is a municipality in Agder county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the region of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Arendal (which is also the seat of Agder county). Some of the notab ...

Phonology

* Intervocalic are realized as voiced . This feature appeared in this dialect in the 20th century. * A uvular realization of was established in Arendal before the 20th century. * is frequently dropped, so that e.g. ''Lars'' becomes ''Læs''. * The ending is pronounced , so that the word for 'basement' is ''kjeller'' in Bokmål, but ''kjellå'' in the Arendal dialect. According to the linguist Gjert Kristoffersen, a recent change is that the postvocalic is ''vocalized'' to , rather than dropped. The phonetic diphthongs and may be monophthongized and lowered to, respectively, and , so that the words for 'to do gymnastics' and 'thorn' (which phonemically are, respectively, and ) vary in their phonetic realization between, respectively, and . This process may be extended to mid vowels.

Tonemes

Phonetic realization

Tonemes of the Arendal dialect are the same as those of the Oslo dialect; accent 1 is low-rising, whereas accent 2 is falling-rising.

Notable speakers

* Gjert Kristoffersen * Rockebandet Ændal, a heavy metal band that sings in the Arendal dialect

References

Bibliography

* Culture in Agder Norwegian dialects City colloquials {{norway-stub