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Västgötska is a Swedish dialect spoken in the western Swedish province of
Västergötland Västergötland (), also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden. Vä ...
. Specifically, Västgötska commonly refers to several variants of the more broadly defined Götamål spoken across Västergötland except for
Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
where the Gothenburg dialect is spoken. The dialect is characterized by the frequent omission of terminal consonants (usually or ), and frequent use of and vowels.


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