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Swedish dialects in Ostrobothnia

Linguistic variety of Swedish spoken in certain regions of Finland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ostrobothnian Swedish (Swedish: österbottniska) is a variety of Finland-Swedish, spoken in Finland.[1][2] Outside the autonomous island province of Åland, which is officially monolingually Swedish, Ostrobothnia is the only region of mainland Finland where Swedish-speakers are the majority (51%).[3]

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Ostrobothnia on a map of Finland

Samples of dialects

Närpes-dialect recorded in 1982 by Ann-Marie Ivars (see file for transcription).[4]

Vörå-dialect recorded in 1962 by Inga-Britt Donner [sv].[5]

References

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