Meldal dialect explained

Meldal Norwegian
Region:	Meldal
Speakers:	?
Familycolor:	Indo-European
Fam2:	Germanic
Fam3:	Northwest Germanic^[1]
Fam4:	North Germanic
Fam5:	West Scandinavian
Fam6:	Norwegian
Fam7:	Trøndersk
Isoexception:	dialect
Glotto:	none

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

Phonology

Vowels

• pronounced as //iː// is a syllabic, palatalized dental approximant pronounced as /[ð̩ʲ˕ː]/. This is realization is also found in some dialects of Swedish.^[2]
• Old Norse diphthongs (ei) and (øy) are realized as long monophthongs pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/. This is the case in a large part of Sør-Trøndelag in general.^[2]

External links

• www.meldal.no - Dialekt

Notes and References

1. Web site: Older Runic . 2022-05-24 . 2022-11-13 . . Hammarström . Harald . https://web.archive.org/web/20221113105941/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/olde1239 . 2022-11-13 . live . . Forkel . Robert . Haspelmath . Martin . Bank . Sebastian.
2. Web site: dialekter i Sør-Trøndelag − Store norske leksikon. 21 July 2015.