Sandnes-mål

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

Consonants

 * Between and after vowels, the voiceless plosives are realized as voiced.
 * merges with into.
 * is uvular.

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




 * The close vowels are rather lax (near-close).
 * The unrounded–rounded pairs have a very similar backness, and differ mainly by rounding.
 * are mid, whereas are open-mid.
 * are near-open; the long vowel is central, whereas the short vowel is somewhat more front.


 * The components of the diphthongs are phonetically close to the short vowels transcribed with the same symbols, so that is phonetically more or less, whereas  and  are phonetically more or less, respectively,  and.