Sandnes-mål, Sandnes dialect or Sandnes Norwegian (
Bokmål
Bokmål () (, ; ) is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. There is no cou ...
: ''Sandnes-mål'' or ''Sandnesdialekten'') is a dialect of
Norwegian used in
Sandnes
Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest municipality in Norway, and together the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sand ...
.
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
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Further reading
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External links
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Culture in Rogaland
Norwegian dialects
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