Värmland Savonian dialect explained

Värmland Finnish dialect
Region:Värmland
Familycolor:Uralic
Fam2:Finnic
Fam3:Finnish
Fam4:Eastern Finnish dialects
Fam5:Savonian dialects
Extinct:1969
Map:File:Sverigekarta-Landskap Värmland.svg
Mapcaption:Värmland, where the dialect was spoken

Värmland Finnish dialect (Finnish: Vermlannin savolaismurteet) is an extinct Savonian dialect spoken in Värmland by the Forest Finns.[1] However some speakers also lived in Norway.[2]

In Savonian dialects, a vowel is inserted in the middle of a word talavi 'winter' (written Finnish "talvi"), however this feature is completely lacking from Värmland Finnish, which suggests it was a later development in Savonian.[3]

History

Savo Finnish speakers came to Sweden during the 1600s (mainly from Rautalampi) . During the 1800s, there were thousands of Finnish speakers in Värmland. Unlike Savonian, the Värmland dialect did not have consonant gemination or the schwa, because they were later developments in the Savonian dialects spoken in Finland.

By the 1960s, only a few descendants of the original Savonians who had spoken Finnish as children remained.[4] The last speakers of Värmland Savonian were Johansson-Oinoinen and Karl Persson, who died in 1965 and 1969.[5]

References

  1. Web site: Vermlannin savolaismurteet. 2021-05-28. sokl.uef.fi.
  2. Web site: Ee toeta männä ettäälle mehtään! Äänestä suomen kaunein murre!. 2021-05-28. www.iltalehti.fi. fi.
  3. Web site: Lähärettihin kihiloolle - Kielikello. 2021-05-28. www.kielikello.fi. fi-FI.
  4. Book: Immigrant languages in Europe . 1993 . Multilingual Matters . Clevedon [England] . 9781853591792 . 23.
  5. Web site: Vermlannin savolaismurteet. 2021-05-28. sokl.uef.fi.