Svealand dialects

Svealand Swedish (Sveamål) is one of the six major groupings of Swedish dialects, spoken in Svealand.

A major characteristic of Svealand Swedish is the coalescence of the alveolar trill with following dental and alveolar consonants&mdash;also over word-boundaries&mdash;that transforms them into retroflex consonants, which in some cases reduces the distinction between words (as for instance vana&mdash;varna, i.e. "habit"&mdash;"warn"). This feature is also found in East Norwegian, North Swedish and in some dialects of Scottish Gaelic.

A special development holds for rd:

The standard variety of Swedish, that of the capital region of Stockholm–Uppsala, is part of the Svealand dialect group, though +  →  is employed instead of the more typical transformation to a flap.