Lannankieli

Lannankieli is one of the three variants of Meänkieli, including the Torneo valley variant and the Gällivare dialects.^[1] Lannankieli is mutually integible with the two other variants of Meänkieli, however there exists some lexical differences.^[2]

Lannankieli
Native to	Sweden
Region	Kiruna
Ethnicity	Lantalaiset
Language family	Uralic Finnic Finnish Peräpohjola Meänkieli Lannankieli
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Sweden
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Traditional spread of the Meänkieli variants, including Lannankieli

Details

Lannankieli is spoken around the towns of Jukkasjärvi, Kurravaara and Kiruna, and there have been efforts to support the variant of Meänkieli.^[3][2][4] And there have been attempts to create Meänkieli literature specifically in the Lannankieli variant.^[5] However, despite this, Lannankieli alongside Gällivare dialects are more vulnerable than the Torneo Valley variant of Meänkieli.^[6]

Features

Lannankieli has several unique features, including but not limited to:

• Passive form in place of the third person plural ending
• the -et ending: huonet, venet instead of huone, vene
• Triphthongs: tieitten, työissä, viei

• K:J consonant gradation: väki - väjen
• K:V consonant gradation: joki - joven
• short vowel after metathesis-h: hiithen instead of hiitheen

In the Kaalasvuoma dialect unstressed -o also becomes -u, like in Gällivare.^[7]