| Southwest Finnish dialects | |
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| Lounaismurteet | |
Uralic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | sout2677 |
 The areas in which the Southwest Finnish dialects are traditionally spoken. | |
Southwest Finnish dialects (Finnish:Lounaismurteet) are WesternFinnish dialects spoken inSouthwest Finland andSatakunta.[1]
The Southwest Finnish dialects havepitch accents andSwedish influences,as well as features from other dialect groups (especiallyTavastian).[2][3][4] However, features and influences from other Finnish dialect groups are largely absent in theRauma dialect.[5]
The Southwest Finnish dialects can be divided into two subgroups, Northern and Eastern groups, which in turn can be divided into even smaller groups.Heikki Ojansuu [fi] divided the Northern group into three:Rauma,Taivassalo andMasku groups, and the Eastern group into two:Halikko and Coastal groups.
Standard Finnish/d/ is usually pronounced as/r/.
The dialects ofRauma and its surroundings also had/ð/ in its place, nowadays this pronunciation has almost completely been displaced by ther-pronunciation. This sound was generally written as a D, which can be seen in place names such asIhode (originally pronounced asIhoðe).[6]
The standard Finnish consonant clusterts usually corresponds tott, e.g.mettä (forest), instead of standardmetsä. In Finland Proper, this is usually subject toconsonant gradation (plural:metät), while in Satakunta it is not (plural:mettät).
Southern Satakunta and some surroundings also had a/θ/ sound in its place, but like the voiced dental fricative, this sound has almost entirely disappeared. It was affected by consonant gradation in the Rauma area (plural:meθät), while inKokemäki,Huittinen andKauvatsa it was not (plural:meθθät).[7]
The standard diphthongsuo, yö andie/ea are generally pronounced asua, yä andiä, e.g.nuari tyämiäs (young workman) instead ofnuori työmies.
This feature is absent from some of the southernmost dialects of the group, however, they appear in mostTavastian andSouthern Ostrobothnian dialects.
leippä, Standard Finnish:leipää 'bread' (partitive case)
linttu, Standard Finnish:lintua 'bird' (partitive case)
maas, Standard Finnish 'maassa'
istusi, Standard Finnish:istuin 'I sat'
palk, Standard Finnish:palkka 'wage'.
asùn TurùsI live in Turku
The plural genitive in Southwestern dialects is "-tten", which is similar toEstonian.[8]
Recording of the Southwest dialect inHinnerjoki (1882)[9]
Te muistatte viälä noita sepän töitä joita te ole, te olette hiukan seurannut sivusta.
nii, niitt ol tommoϑϑi, siihe mailma aikka viime vuassaδà lopùl, ko mnääki, muistama, rupèsi ni, niitt ol semmoϑϑì vanhoi, maasepìks sanòttiŋ Go, niit ol sit sillal.
muistaŋ Gon tual, Ilòmä èsäki, se o semmost tasàst, tasàst mäkki siik kohta, vaik se vähä̀ korkkia o siin on̬ semmone aika isò, pajà, pajàrakènus vaan tehty vaa sillal hirsist, neljä nurkkaha.
Example of the Turku dialect
Aletaaks tehrä loppuu lamas matelemisel!
Ei täst muute etiäppäin mennä kuin yrittämisel ja ilosel meininkil! Hyvä tapa henkennostatukseen on see, että suasita oman alueen kauppiai ja tuattajii, kekkä tarjoo ireoi ja tuattei juuri Sul!
Example of the Rauma dialect
Nortamo jaaritukse ovas suamlaise murrekirjallisude alk ja toistaseks sem baras saavutus. Sanota, ett hän sai kaunist soima semse instrumentin, go ei ollu viäl viritettykkä. Nortamo menestyksen grunttin ei kumminga ollu ainvastas murre, sill ett hän ol kans eriomane humorist.[11]