Sandnes-mål, Sandnes dialect or Sandnes Norwegian (

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: ''Sandnes-mål'' or ''Sandnesdialekten'') is a dialect of

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Sandnes Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest city in Norway and together, the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sandnes lies ...

Phonology

Consonants

* Between and after vowels, the voiceless plosives are realized as voiced . * merges with into . * is

uvular Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. Uvulars may be stops, fricatives, nasals, trills, or approximants, though the IPA does not prov ...

Vowels

Apart from , all short vowels have a long equivalent, which has the same quality as the short vowel (excluding the pair). Sandnes Norwegian vowel chart

* 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 . * 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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