Stavangersk

Stavangersk, Stavanger dialect or Stavanger Norwegian (Stavangersk, Stavanger-dialekt (Bokmål) or Stavangerdialekt (Nynorsk)) 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.

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 $⟨ai⟩$ has a front starting point.

Phonetic realization
Phonetically, the tonemes of the Stavanger dialect are the same as those of Central Standard Swedish; accent 1 is rising-falling, whereas accent 2 is double falling.