Arendalsk

Arendalsk
Region Arendal
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None

Arendalsk, Arendal dialect or Arendal Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk: Arendalsk, Arendalsdialekten; the Arendal dialect: Ændalsk) is a dialect of Norwegian used in Arendal.

Phonology

According to the linguist Gjert Kristoffersen, a very recent change is that the postvocalic /ʀ/ is vocalized to [æ̯], rather than dropped. The phonetic diphthongs [ʉæ̯] and [uæ̯] may be monophthongized and lowered to, respectively, [œː] and [ɔː], so that the words for 'to do gymnastics' and 'thorn' (which phonemically are, respectively, /²tʉʀne/ and /²tuʀne/) vary in their phonetic realization between, respectively, [ˈtʰʉ̞̂æ̯nə̌ ~ ˈtʰœ̂ːnə̌] and [ˈtʰʊ̂æ̯nə̌ ~ ˈtʰɔ̂ːnə̌]. This process may be extended to mid vowels.[3]

Tonemes

Phonetic realization

Tonemes of the Arendal dialect are the same as those of the Oslo dialect; accent 1 is low-rising, whereas accent 2 is falling-rising.[4]

Notable speakers

References

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