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Svealand Swedish ( sv, Sveamål) is one of the six major groupings of Swedish dialects, spoken in Svealand. A major characteristic of ''Svealand Swedish'' is the coalescence of the alveolar trill with following dental and alveolar consonants—also over word-boundaries—that transforms them into retroflex consonants that in some cases reduces the distinction between words (as for instance ''vana—varna,'' i.e. "habit"—"warn"). This feature is also found in East Norwegian,
North Swedish Norrland dialects ( sv, norrländska mål, links=no) is one of the six major dialect groupings of the Swedish language. It comprises most dialects traditionally spoken in Norrland, except for those of Gästrikland and southern Hälsingland, which ...
and in some dialects of Scottish Gaelic. * + → * + → * + → * + → A special development holds for ''rd'': * + → One high-status variety of Swedish, that of the capital region of
Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
Uppsala, sometimes ambiguously designated as ''
rikssvenska Standard Swedish () denotes Swedish as a spoken and written standard language. While Swedish as a written language is uniform and standardized, the spoken standard may vary considerably from region to region. Several prestige dialects have devel ...
'', belongs to ''Svealand Swedish'', though + → is employed instead of the traditional transformation to a flap. Swedish dialects Svealand {{Germanic-lang-stub