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Hallingmål-Valdris
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Hallingmål-Valdris (also known by the individual names Halling, Hallingdøl, or Valdresmål) is a group of Norwegian dialects traditionally spoken in the traditional districts Hallingdal, Buskerud and Valdres, Oppland.[a]

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Phonology

Consonants

  • /rn/ is usually realized as a prestopped nasal [dn̩], while the allophone [ɳ] only occurs in words like baren ([bɑːɳ])[4] "the bar".[5][b]
  • /rl/ also has a prestopped realization [dl].[5]
  • The phoneme which is commonly called thick L (written /ɽ/ in IPA), exists in words that had either l or in Old Norse. In Vang, /ɽ/ occurs only in the first case.[7]
  • The consonant clusters sk, skj, and sj were not pronounced as [ʂ], only -rs- was.[8] Sørbygdi in Flå pronounces sj as [ʂ], while Gulsvik pronounces it as [ʂj].[9]
  • The consonant clusters sl and tl were mostly assimilated to [sl]. Hol and Ål assimilated these to [l̥],[10][11] and Sørbygdi in Flå assimilated sl to [ʂl].[9]
  • The clusters -ld, -nd and -mb are pronounced as spelled.[12][13][14]
  • The Old Norse cluster -fn is pronounced as assimilated [bdn] or [bn].[13]

Vowels

  • The back vowels [ʊ, uː] and [ɔ, oː] in older Hallingmål-Valdris were pronounced as in Old Norse, without the vowel shift to, respectively, [ʉ, ʉː] and [ʊ, uː] that is found in most other Norwegian dialects.[15][16]
  • The short Old Norse vowels o and ö are pronounced as central [ɞ] almost everywhere, except for Ål (but not Torpo), where these are back [ɔ].[7][17][18] In Valdres (except for Vang), the schwa /ə/ can also be realized as [ɞ].[7]
  • Traditionally, /æ, æː/ were pronounced as open-mid [ɛ, ɛː].[15]
  • The words pronounced [e(ː)] and [ɛ(ː)] mean "I" and "am", respectively.[15]
  • Itacism is found in southern Hallingdal (Flå, Nes and some in Gol), making the vowel /yː/ to be unrounded to [].[19]
  • The Old Norse diphthongs ei, ey and au are traditionally pronounced as [aɪ̯], [ɔʏ̯] ([eɪ̯] in southern Hallingdal)[19] and [aʊ̯]. This is occurs today especially in upper Valdres and Hol and Ål.[7][8]
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Grammar

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