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

Meldal dialect
Region	Meldal
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian Trøndersk Meldal dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Phonology

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.[1][2]
• 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.[2]

References

Bibliography

External links

• www.meldal.no - Dialekt

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