Stavangersk
Stavangersk, Stavanger dialect or Stavanger Norwegian or Stavangerdialekt ) is a dialect of Norwegian used in Stavanger.
The pronunciation and origin resemble that of the written Nynorsk, yet the official written language of the Stavanger municipality is Bokmål.
Phonology
Consonants
- are alveolar.
- As in Bergen and Oslo, younger speakers of the Stavanger dialect tend to merge with.
- is realized as a voiced uvular continuant, either a fricative or an approximant. It can be voiceless before a voiceless consonant or a pause. This means that the dialect does not possess retroflex consonants.
Vowels
- The long close central and close back vowels can be realized as closing diphthongs and.
- The short counterpart of is close-mid.
- The short close back vowel is more front than in Oslo, near-back rather than back.
- The mid-back vowels are somewhat advanced from the fully back position, i.e. near-back, rather than back. The long is close-mid, whereas the short is open-mid.
- The long open back vowel is phonetically back, but its short counterpart is front, identical to the cardinal . It is the most anterior realization of this vowel in Norway.
- The non-native diphthong has a front starting point.