Sandnes-mål
# Sandnes-mål

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

## Phonology

### Consonants

* Between and after vowels, the voiceless plosives /p, t, k/ are realized as voiced [b, d, ɡ].
* /ç/ merges with /ʃ/ into [ʃ].
* /r/ is uvular.

### Vowels

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

Monophthong phonemes of Sandnes-mål :

| | Front | Front | Front | Front | Central | Central | Back | Back |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | unrounded | unrounded | rounded | rounded | | Central | Central | Back | Back |
| | short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long |
| Close | i | iː | y | yː | ʉ | ʉː | u | uː |
| Mid | e | eː | ø | øː | (ə) | | ɔ | ɔː |
| Open | | | | | a | aː | | |

* The close vowels /i, iː, y, yː, ʉ, ʉː, u, uː/ are rather lax (near-close) [ɪ, ɪː, ʏ, ʏː, ʉ̞, ʉ̞ː, ʊ, ʊː].
* The unrounded–rounded pairs /i–y, iː–yː, e–ø, eː–øː/ have a very similar backness, and differ mainly by rounding.
* /e, eː, ø, øː, ə/ are mid [e̞, e̞ː, ø̞, ø̞ː, ə], whereas /ɔ, ɔː/ are open-mid [ɔ, ɔː].
* /a, aː/ are near-open; the long vowel is central [ɐː], whereas the short vowel is somewhat more front [æ̠].

Diphthong phonemes of Sandnes-mål :

| Starting point | Ending point | Ending point | Ending point |
| - | - | - | - |
| Starting point | Front | Front | Central |
| Starting point | unrounded | rounded | rounded |
| Mid | ei | øy | øʉ |

* The components of the diphthongs are phonetically close to the short vowels transcribed with the same symbols, so that /ei/ is phonetically more or less [e̞ɪ], whereas /øy/ and /øʉ/ are phonetically more or less, respectively, [ø̞ʏ] and [ø̞ʉ̞].
