Meldal dialect

Meldal dialect or Meldal Norwegian is a dialect of Norwegian used in the area of the old Meldal Municipality (now part of Orkland Municipality). It is a variety of Trøndersk.

Meldal Norwegian
Region	Meldal Municipality
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Northwest Germanic[1] North Germanic West Scandinavian Norwegian Trøndersk Meldal Norwegian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Phonology

Vowels

• /iː/ is a syllabic, palatalized dental approximant [ð̩ʲ˕ː]. This is realization is also found in some dialects of Swedish.^[2][3]
• Old Norse diphthongs ⟨ei⟩ and ⟨øy⟩ are realized as long monophthongs [eː] and [øː]. This is the case in a large part of Sør-Trøndelag in general.^[3]