Sandnes-mål

Sandnes-mål
Region	Sandnes
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian South-West Norwegian Sandnes-mål
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Sandnes-mål, Sandnes dialect or Sandnes Norwegian (Bokmål: Sandnes-mål or Sandnesdialekten) is a dialect of Norwegian used in Sandnes.

Phonology

Consonants

• Between and after vowels, the voiceless plosives /p, t, k/ are realized as voiced [b, d, ɡ].
• /ç/ merges with /ʃ/ into [ʃ].
• /r/ is uvular.

Vowels

Apart from /ə/, all short vowels have a long equivalent, which has the same quality as the short vowel (excluding the /a–aː/ pair).

File:Sandnes Norwegian vowel chart.svg

Monophthongs of Sandnes-mål, from Ims (2010:14)

Monophthong phonemes of Sandnes-mål

	Front				Central		Back
	unrounded		rounded				rounded
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
Near-close	i	iː	y	yː	ʉ	ʉː	u	uː
Mid	e	eː	ø	øː	(ə)		ɔ	ɔː
Near-open	a					aː

• The close vowels /i, iː, y, yː, ʉ, ʉː, u, uː/ are rather lax (near-close) [ɪ, ɪː, ʏ, ʏː, ʉ̞, ʉ̞ː, ʊ, ʊː].
• The unrounded–rounded pairs /i–y, iː–yː, e–ø, eː–øː/ have a very similar backness, and differ mainly by rounding.
• /e, eː, ø, øː, ə/ are mid [e̞, e̞ː, ø̞, ø̞ː, ə], whereas /ɔ, ɔː/ are open-mid [ɔ, ɔː].
• /a, aː/ are near-open; the long vowel is central [ɐː], whereas the short vowel is somewhat more front [æ̠].

Diphthong phonemes of
Sandnes-mål

Starting point	Ending point
	Front		Central
	unrounded	rounded	rounded
Mid	ei	øy	øʉ

• The components of the diphthongs are phonetically close to the short vowels transcribed with the same symbols, so that /ei/ is phonetically more or less [e̞ɪ], whereas /øy/ and /øʉ/ are phonetically more or less, respectively, [ø̞ʏ] and [ø̞ʉ̞].