Sognamål dialect
Sognamål dialect | |
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sognamaol | |
Region | Sogn |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
Latin (Norwegian alphabet) Norwegian Braille | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
IETF | no-u-sd-no14 |
Sognamål (literally "Sogn language", in Sognamål; sognamaol) is a Western Norwegian dialect which is spoken in the area of Sogn. One of the most prominent features of Sognamål is the pronunciation [aʊ] instead of [ɔː] in many words, i.e. exactly how the letter "á" is pronounced in modern Icelandic. The folk/black metal band Windir from Sogndal used the dialect in their lyrics.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ||||
Plosive / Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | c͡ç | k | |
voiced | b | d | ɟ͡ʝ | ɡ | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||
voiced | v | |||||
Trill | r |
- /m,p,b/ are bilabial, whereas /f,v/ are labiodental.
- /p,b,t,d,k,ɡ/ are plosives, whereas /c͡ç,ɟ͡ʝ/ are affricates.
- Phonetically, /r/ can be trilled [r] or tapped [ɾ].
Vowels
Front | Back | |||||
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unrounded | rounded | |||||
short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | i | iː | ʊ | ʊː | ||
Mid | ɛ | eː | ø | øː | ɔ | ɔː |
Open | a | aː |
- /eː/ is close-mid front [eː]. Its short counterpart is the open-mid front [ɛ].
- /ʊ,ʊː/ are close-mid [o,oː].
- The long /øː/ is open-mid front [œː], whereas the short /ø/ varies between open-mid front [œ] and near-close front [ʉ̞˖].
- /ɔ,ɔː/ are open-mid [ɔ,ɔː].
- /a,aː/ are central [ä,äː].
Starting point | Ending point | |||||
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Front | Back | |||||
unrounded | rounded | |||||
short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | iʉ | iʉː | ||||
Close-mid | ei | eiː | eʉ | eʉː | ||
Open-mid | ɔi | ɔiː | øy | øyː | oʊ | oʊː |
Open | ai | aiː | aʊ | aʊː |
- /iʉ,iʉː/ are phonetically [iʉ̟,iʉ̟ː].
- /ei,eiː/ are phonetically [ei,eiː].
- /eʉ,eʉː/ are phonetically [eʉ̟,eʉ̟ː].
- /øy,øyː/ are phonetically [œy,œyː].
- /ɔi,ɔiː/ are phonetically [ɔ̟i,ɔ̟iː].
- /oʊ,oʊː/ are phonetically [ɔo,ɔoː].
- /ai,aiː/ are phonetically [äi,äiː].
- /aʊ,aʊː/ are phonetically [äo̟,äo̟ː].