Värmland Finnish dialect ( fi, Vermlannin savolaismurteet) is an extinct
Savonian dialect spoken in Värmland by the
Forest Finns. However some speakers also lived in
Norway
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In
Savonian dialects
The Savonian dialects (also called Savo Finnish)( fi, Savolaismurteet) are forms of the Finnish language spoken in Savonia and other parts of Eastern Finland. Finnish dialects are grouped broadly into Eastern and Western varieties; Savonian diale ...
, a vowel is inserted in the middle of a word ''talavi'' 'winter' (written Finnish "talvi"), however this feature is completely lacking from Värmland Finnish, which suggests it was a later development in
Savonian.
History
Savo Finnish speakers came to Sweden during the 1600s (mainly from
Rautalampi). During the 1800s, there were thousands of Finnish speakers in Värmland. Unlike Savonian, the Värmland dialect did not have consonant gemination or the schwa, because they were later developments in the Savonian dialects spoken in Finland.
By the 1960s, only a few descendants of the original Savonians who had spoken Finnish as children remained. The last speakers of Värmland Savonian were Johansson-Oinoinen and Karl Persson, who died in 1965 and 1969.
References
Finnish dialects
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