Sandnes-mål, Sandnes dialect or Sandnes Norwegian (Bokmål: Sandnes-mål or Sandnesdialekten) is a dialect of Norwegian used in Sandnes.
Phonology
Consonants Between and after vowels, the voiceless plosives are realized as voiced . merges with into . is uvular.
Vowels Apart from , all short vowels have a long equivalent, which has the same quality as the short vowel (excluding the pair).
+Monophthong phonemes of Sandnes-mål Front Central Back unrounded rounded short long short long short long short long Close Mid () Open
The close vowels are rather lax (near-close) . The unrounded–rounded pairs have a very similar backness, and differ mainly by rounding. are mid , whereas are open-mid . are near-open; the long vowel is central , whereas the short vowel is somewhat more front .
+ Diphthong phonemes ofSandnes-målStarting pointEnding pointFrontCentral Mid
The components of the diphthongs are phonetically close to the short vowels transcribed with the same symbols, so that is phonetically more or less , whereas and are phonetically more or less, respectively, and .
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