Central Swedish dialects

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Central Swedish dialects are a group of Swedish varieties spoken in the central regions of Sweden that form the basis for the standard pronunciation of the Swedish language.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Swedish dialects
group of dialects
basisFor Central Swedish dialects
surface form: "Standard Swedish pronunciation"
closelyRelatedTo Norrland dialects
Scanian dialect
surface form: "South Swedish dialects"
contrastedWith Finland Swedish dialects
Gotlandic dialects
Norrland dialects
South Swedish dialects
Svealand rural dialects
country Sweden
hasAlternativeName Central Swedish varieties
Central Swedish dialects
surface form: "centralsvenska dialekter"
hasFeature consonant length distinction
reduction of unstressed vowels
relatively weak regional variation compared to other Swedish dialect groups
retroflex consonant clusters
tonal word accents
vowel length distinction
hasMorphology two grammatical genders in most varieties
hasPhonology Central Swedish phonology
hasStatus de facto standard spoken Swedish
hasStressPattern primary stress on one syllable per word
hasSyntax V2 word order
influences Swedish language
surface form: "Standard Swedish"
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: "Indo-European languages"

North Germanic languages
linguisticTypology fusional language
partOf Swedish language
region eastern Sweden
surface form: "central Sweden"
spokenBy native speakers of Swedish in central Sweden
standardVarietyCenter Stockholm
Uppsala
subclassOf North Germanic dialects
Scandinavian dialects
timePeriod modern era
usedAs model for teaching Swedish pronunciation to second-language learners
usedIn Mälaren Valley
Närke
Region Stockholm
surface form: "Stockholm region"

Svealand
Södermanland County
surface form: "Södermanland"

Uppland
Västmanland
parts of Dalarna
parts of Gästrikland
writingSystem Latin alphabet

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Central Swedish dialects basisFor Central Swedish dialects
this entity surface form: "Standard Swedish pronunciation"
Scanian dialect closelyRelatedTo Central Swedish dialects
this entity surface form: "Standard Swedish"
Gutnish distinctFrom Central Swedish dialects
this entity surface form: "Standard Swedish"
Central Swedish dialects hasAlternativeName Central Swedish dialects
this entity surface form: "centralsvenska dialekter"
Swedish language hasStandardPronunciationBasedOn Central Swedish dialects
Övdalian notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Central Swedish dialects
this entity surface form: "Standard Swedish"

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