Götaland dialects

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Götamål is one of the six dialect areas of the Swedish language, mostly heard in Västergötland, Dalsland, northern Halland, northern Småland and Östergötland. However, it is also heard in Bohuslän and Värmland. Examples of Götamål features are vowel reduction, vowel shortening in front of endings and loss of /r/ in suffixes, such as in hästa instead of hästar, eng. horses.^[1]

References

^ Frid, Johan (2007). "Automatic classification of front and back pronunciation variants of /r/ in the Götaland dialects of Swedish: Fonetik 2007". Proceedings of Fonetik 2007/TMH-QPSR. 50: 113–116.

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Götaland dialects

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