Hälsingemål

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Hälsingemål is a Swedish dialect traditionally spoken in the Hälsingland region of Sweden, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar within the North Swedish dialect group.

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Label Occurrences
Hälsingemål canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf North Swedish dialect ⓘ
Swedish dialect ⓘ
belongsToDialectGroup North Swedish dialects NERFINISHED ⓘ
characteristic distinctive grammar ⓘ
distinctive pronunciation ⓘ
distinctive vocabulary ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
contrastWith Central Swedish dialects NERFINISHED ⓘ
Standard Swedish pronunciation ⓘ
country Sweden ⓘ
dialectRegion Hälsingland NERFINISHED ⓘ
Norrland NERFINISHED ⓘ
feature lexical items not used in Standard Swedish ⓘ
prosodic patterns differing from Standard Swedish ⓘ
regional vowel qualities distinct from Standard Swedish ⓘ
retention of some archaic Swedish forms ⓘ
influencedBy rural speech traditions of Hälsingland ⓘ
languageBranch Germanic languages ⓘ
languageCodeStandard none (no separate ISO 639 code) ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageGroup North Germanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
linguisticArea Scandinavian dialectology ⓘ
partOf Swedish dialect continuum ⓘ
Swedish language ⓘ
preservationEffort documented in regional dialect archives ⓘ
relatedDialect Härjedalska ⓘ
Jämtland dialects ⓘ
Medelpad dialects ⓘ
Norrbotten dialects ⓘ
Västerbotten dialects ⓘ
Ångermanland dialects ⓘ
sociolinguisticStatus declining among younger speakers ⓘ
spokenIn Gävleborg County NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hälsingland countryside NERFINISHED ⓘ
standardizationStatus not officially standardized ⓘ
status regional spoken variety ⓘ
timePeriod traditionally used since at least early modern Swedish period ⓘ
usedBy inhabitants of Hälsingland ⓘ
usedIn informal oral communication ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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

Hälsingland → hasRegionalDialect → Hälsingemål ⓘ