"Zealandic" redirects here. For the dialect spoken in Zeeland, the Netherlands, see Zeelandic.
Map of main Danish dialect areas
The Danish language has a number of regional and local dialect varieties.[1][2] These can be divided into the traditional dialects, which differ from modern Standard Danish in both phonology and grammar, and the Danish accents, which are local varieties of the standard language distinguished mostly by pronunciation and local vocabulary colored by traditional dialects. Traditional dialects are now mostly extinct in Denmark, with only the oldest generations still speaking them.
The traditional dialects are generally divided into three main dialectal areas: Jutlandic dialect, Insular Danish, and East Danish. Since the Swedish conquest of the Eastern Danish provinces Skåne, Halland and Blekinge in 1645/1658, the Eastern Danish dialects there have come under heavy Swedish influence. Many residents now speak regional variants of Standard Swedish. However, many researchers still consider the dialects in Scania, Halland (Hallandsk) and Blekinge (Blekingsk) as part of the East Danish dialect group.[3][4] The Swedish National Encyclopedia from 1995 classifies Scanian as an Eastern Danish dialect with South Swedish elements.[5] Also Bornholmish belongs to the East Danish dialect group. Jutlandic is divided into Southern Jutlandic and Northern Jutlandic, with Northern Jutlandic subdivided into North Jutlandic and West Jutlandic. Insular Danish is divided into Zealand, Funen, Møn, and Lolland-Falster dialect areas – each with additional internal variation. The variant of Standard Danish spoken in Southern Schleswig is called South Schleswig Danish, the Danish variant on the Faroe Islands Gøtudanskt. Danish shares many similarities with the Norwegian (Bokmål). Also North Frisian[6] and Gutnish (Gutamål) are influenced by Danish.[7]
Jutlandic (Jysk)
Insular Danish (Ømål)
East Danish (Østdansk)
other variants
North Jutlandic (with Eastern and Western Jutlandic)
Zeelandic
Scanian
Southern Schleswig Danish
South Jutlandic (with Angel Danish)
Funen dialect
Blekinge dialect
Gøtudanskt accent
Møn dialect
Halland dialect
Lolland-Falster dialect
Bornholm dialect
^"Dialekter". Dialekt.dk (in Danish). 25 September 2006. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
^"Danske Dialekter – Gyldendal". DenStoreDanske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 22 September 2013.
^Niels Åge Nielsen: Dansk dialektantologi. Bind 1: Østdansk og ømål, København 1978
^Harry Perridon: Dialects and written language in Old Nordic II: Old Danish and Old Swedish, I: Oskar Bandle, Kurt Braunmuller, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Allan Karker, Hans-Peter Naumann og Ulf Teleman: The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-014876-5
^Nationalencyklopedin 1995
^NDR: Wie bitte? Friesisch? Was ist das denn?
^Bengt Pamp: Svenska dialekter. Natur och Kultur, Stockholm 1978, ISBN 91-27-00344-2, p. 76
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