Bornholmian

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Bornholmian is the distinctive East Scandinavian dialect of Danish spoken on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

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Bornholmian canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Danish dialect
East Scandinavian dialect
dialect
belongsTo East Danish dialect group
country Denmark
endangeredStatus vulnerable dialect
geographicDistribution island of Bornholm
hasAlternativeName Bornholm Danish NERFINISHED
Bornholmsk NERFINISHED
hasCulturalSignificance marker of Bornholm local identity
hasDialectContinuumWith Scanian
other East Danish dialects
hasGrammaticalFeature distinct definite article forms
three-gender system in some varieties
hasHistoricalRelation closely related to other East Danish dialects
preserves archaic features lost in Standard Danish
hasInfluenceFrom Low German NERFINISHED
Standard Danish NERFINISHED
Swedish
hasLexicalFeature loanwords from Low German
loanwords from Swedish
many words not used in Standard Danish
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant system influenced by East Scandinavian traits
distinct prosody compared to Standard Danish
distinct vowel system compared to Standard Danish
less reduction of unstressed vowels than Standard Danish
hasSociolinguisticStatus declining use among younger speakers
primarily spoken in informal contexts
hasStandardForm no fully standardized orthography
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isSubjectOf dialectological studies in Denmark
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

North Germanic languages NERFINISHED
mutualIntelligibility partially intelligible with Standard Danish
partially intelligible with Swedish
partOf Danish language NERFINISHED
region Bornholm Municipality NERFINISHED
spokenBy inhabitants of Bornholm
spokenIn Baltic Sea region NERFINISHED
Bornholm NERFINISHED
subclassOf North Germanic language variety
Scandinavian dialect
usedIn local cultural expressions on Bornholm
oral tradition on Bornholm
usesAlphabet Danish alphabet NERFINISHED

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Bornholmsk hasAlternativeName Bornholmian