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Sandnes-mål, Sandnes dialect or Sandnes Norwegian (
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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). * 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 .


References


Bibliography

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Further reading

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External links

* Culture in Rogaland Norwegian dialects {{norway-stub