Hälsingemål

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Hälsingemål is a Swedish dialect traditionally spoken in the Hälsingland region of Sweden, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar within the North Swedish dialect group.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hälsingemål canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf North Swedish dialect ⓘ
Swedish dialect ⓘ
belongsToDialectGroup North Swedish dialects ⓘ
linked to: Norrland dialects
characteristic distinctive grammar ⓘ
distinctive pronunciation ⓘ
distinctive vocabulary ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
contrastWith Central Swedish dialects ⓘ
Standard Swedish pronunciation ⓘ
country Sweden ⓘ
dialectRegion Hälsingland ⓘ
Norrland ⓘ
feature lexical items not used in Standard Swedish ⓘ
prosodic patterns differing from Standard Swedish ⓘ
regional vowel qualities distinct from Standard Swedish ⓘ
retention of some archaic Swedish forms ⓘ
influencedBy rural speech traditions of Hälsingland ⓘ
languageBranch Germanic languages ⓘ
languageCodeStandard none (no separate ISO 639 code) ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European languages ⓘ
languageGroup North Germanic languages ⓘ
linguisticArea Scandinavian dialectology ⓘ
partOf Swedish dialect continuum ⓘ
Swedish language ⓘ
preservationEffort documented in regional dialect archives ⓘ
relatedDialect Härjedalska ⓘ
Jämtland dialects ⓘ
Medelpad dialects ⓘ
Norrbotten dialects ⓘ
Västerbotten dialects ⓘ
Ångermanland dialects ⓘ
sociolinguisticStatus declining among younger speakers ⓘ
spokenIn Gävleborg County ⓘ
Hälsingland countryside ⓘ
linked to: Hälsingland
standardizationStatus not officially standardized ⓘ
status regional spoken variety ⓘ
timePeriod traditionally used since at least early modern Swedish period ⓘ
usedBy inhabitants of Hälsingland ⓘ
usedIn informal oral communication ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hälsingland → hasRegionalDialect → Hälsingemål ⓘ