Meldal dialect

Meldal Norwegian
Meldal Norwegian
Region	Meldal Municipality
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Northwest Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian Norwegian Trøndersk Meldal Norwegian; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Norwegian dialect of Meldal, Norway

Meldal dialect or Meldal Norwegian is a dialect of Norwegian used in the area of the old Meldal Municipality (now part of Orkland Municipality). It is a variety of Trøndersk.

Phonology

/i/ is retracted to [ɨ], a distinctive feature of the dialect.^[2]^[3]
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.^[3]

^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Older Runic". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-11-13. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
^ Dalen, Arnold; Hagland, Jan Ragnar; Hårstad, Stian; Rydving, Håkan; Stemshaug, Ola (2008). Trøndersk språkhistorie: Språkforhold i ein region. p. 42. ISBN 978-82-519-2330-9.
^ a b Venås, Kjell, ed. (2024-11-25). "dialekter i Sør-Trøndelag". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2025-01-27.

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