Meldal dialect or Meldal Norwegian is a dialect of
Norwegian used in the area of the old
Meldal Municipality (now part of
Orkland Municipality
Orkland is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Orkdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Orkang ...
). It is a variety of
Trøndersk
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Trøndersk (), also known as ''trøndermål'' () or ''trøndsk'' (), is a Norwegian dialect, or rather a group of several sub-dialects. As is the case with all Norwegian dialects, it has no standardised orthography, and its users writ ...
.
Phonology
Vowels
* is a syllabic, palatalized
dental approximant
The voiced dental fricative is a consonant sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the ''th'' sound in ''father''. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is eth, or and was taken from the Old Engl ...
. This is realization is also found in some dialects of
Swedish.
* Old Norse diphthongs and are realized as long monophthongs and . This is the case in a large part of
Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag () county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. ...
in general.
References
External links
www.meldal.no - Dialekt
Norwegian dialects
Meldal
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