If you’re learning about the art of raising cows, you can call yourself a student of “kine,” which I just learned is a collective word for cows. (From Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Ubervilles #langsky)

The words introduced in the first food lesson in #Duolingo Swedish are: Herring, crayfish, berries, cinnamon, buns. Very Swedish! 🇸🇪 In the second: Meatballs, mustard, cream, butter [Very early lessons already covered coffee, tea, beer, pizza, cake, and for some reason strawberries] #langsky

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This linguistic sketch of KAJ’s song in Swedish dialect is now out, five pages with lyrics, English lyrics running in parallel and a commentary to the dialectal traits in its own column with hyperlinks. #Eurovision2025 #ESC2025 #Eurovision #Langsky www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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”Som tango me Arja Saijonmaa” ”och släpp all stress idag” I did not comment these bits that are identical to standard Swedish. The dialects are heavily influenced by both standard Fenno-Swedish & Sweden Swedish and just like in real life artists may do code gliding, e.g. to match the music👇🏻 #langsky

I have little doubt that the word ”där” ’there’ may be pronounced as such unstressed after a nasal in ”nästan”. Yet, in the dialect the free form is ”tär” or ”tä:r”. This ”t” is common to most Swedish dialects in Finland and Estonia (and typical for Faroese)👇🏻 #langsky kaino.kotus.fi/fo/?p=articl...

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”(Tick tick tack) hor läng orkar do 90 grader vi e nästan där” The text is nearly Swedish, but ”hur” ’how’ and ”du” ’you’ are pronounced with a back [ʊ] as noted a couple of skeets up, and ”längg” end in an audible plosive ”g”, as already noted for “ånggon”.👇🏻 #langsky bsky.app/profile/scha...

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”Häll på vatn och meir ångo no” Here the word for ’water’ appears Old Nordic as it lacks an intrusive vowel (Swedish: ”vatten”). The official lyrics spells two ’tt’ies (vattn) just to mark the shortness of the preceding vowel The diphthong in ”meir” is Old Nordic👇🏻 #langsky bsky.app/profile/scha...

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In areas with merger of short <u> /ʉ/ [ɵ] with <o> /u/ (like Vörå) the results of shortening of long /ʉ̹ː/ differ, and those of loans from Swedish. In Vörå ”nu:” is /nʊ/ but in some dialects it has a marginal phoneme /nʉ̟/. In Kevin’s rap it’s either ”jʉ̟st” or ”jyst” Which one do you hear?👇🏻 #langsky

Nåjaa, let’s dive into the text again: The chorus ends ”bada bastu jåå”, while Kevin begins his rap: ”Ja: jyst ja:!” ”Ja:” is ’yes’ in Swedish, but here a discourse particle. For ’yes’ Fenno-Swedish & some dialects use ”jåå”. Then there is ”jo” (”jåo” in Vörå), to counter an expected ’no’👇🏻 #langsky

This🧵continues to open KAJ’s Ostrobotnian Vörå dialect from Finland through the lyrics of Sweden’s viral Eurovision entry Bara Bada Bastu. For earlier bits & chorus, follow quote. For lyrics & sound in Vörå & subtitles in English, follow link. Nåjaa!👇🏻🧵 #eurovision2025 #langsky youtu.be/IPfSmZ8r_MM

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The Swedish influenced most by Finnish was the slang in Helsinki, close to my own linguistic roots. Sadly, it is extinct and replaced by Finnish slang and ”bad” Fenno-Swedish of low stylistic register. As a legacy, a vowel-harmonic inflection occurs: att tönä ’to shove’, tönä(r), tönä(de) #langsky

Finnish influenced intonation is very audible for a Scandinavian ear. KAJ's Vörå has less of that than e.g. Helsinki, but more than South-Ostrobotnia, where you find Närpes. Yet, the only dialect with documented lexical accent is found southwest of Helsinki. #langsky www.academia.edu/48282723/Var...

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Swedish dialects in Finland are influenced by Finnish, and loanwords (& calques) occur, different ones for different dialects. Some are old & well nativised; "Heittää" in this line is not one of them, as seen from the long vowel-harmonic ending -ää. Incidental loans occurs in free speech!👇🏻 #langsky

For experts in Norwegian phonology: We gain nothing by assuming "short" diphthongs to avoid assuming overlength. AFAIK the diphthong in "heit" 'hot' (m/f) is indistinguishable from that in "heitt" 'hot' (nt). And there is no difference in length between "heitt" and "le:tt" 'light'. #langsky

”heittää på så sveittin bara yr” Here ”sveittin” marks the genuine dialect, with an Old Nordic diphthong and an overlong syllable, since shortened in the main Scandinavian languages. And -in instead of -en. The Finnish ”heittää” ’throw’ raises the issue of Finnish influence and borrowings👇🏻 #langsky

Even if this Vörå /u/ by KAJ (pro /ɵ/) co-incidentally resembles the Ancient Nordic */u/ from which it originates, its distribution on the map and in the vocabulary suggests that contact with Finnish made it merge with /u/ in ”bonde”. #langsky #eurovision2025

”hundra grader nåjaa” In Vörå short <u> sounds like a German <u> ”hundert”, a French <ou> ”ouvert” or a Swedish <o> ”bonde”, but unlike [ɵ] in ”hundra”, with its rounded central vowel. This /ɵ/-/u/-merger occurs in two areas on Finland’s coast, mutually apart & flanked by non-merger areas.👇🏻 #langsky

Over and again KAJ uses the expletive pronoun "e". In a periferal arc of dialectal East Nordic descendants of "he" replaces the Swedish pronoun "det". It has been suggested that like in Faroese an initial "th-" would have been lost, but I believe it comes from Old Nordic deictic "hitt". #langsky

The genesis of this ”L” is not fully understood, but at least for nearly a millennium it has been part of a north & central Scandinavian consonant inventory, likely contrastive with alveolar ”l” in the area. Foreign influence on urban speech suppressed it. #langsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=c70I...

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