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Svealand Swedish (Swedish:Sveamål) is one of the six major groupings of Swedish dialects, spoken inSvealand.
A major characteristic ofSvealand Swedish is thecoalescence of thealveolar trill with followingdental andalveolar consonants—also over word-boundaries—that transforms them intoretroflex consonants, which in some cases reduces the distinction between words (as for instancevana—varna, i.e. "habit"—"warn"). This feature is also found inEast Norwegian,North Swedish and in some dialects ofScottish Gaelic.
A special development holds forrd:
The standardvariety of Swedish, that of the capital region ofStockholm–Uppsala, is part of the Svealand dialect group, though/r/ +/d/ →[ɖ] is employed instead of the more typical transformation to a flap.
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