Sallaans dialect

Phonology

Consonants

• appears only as an allophone of before voiced consonants.
• After long close and close-mid vowels, surfaces as a diphthongization of the vowel, as in zoer. This also happens in compounds: veurkämer. It is also often dropped preconsonantally after.

  Vowels

• Unlike in Standard Dutch, the long close-mid monophthongs are actual monophthongs and not narrow closing diphthongs. They do not appear before whenever that consonant occurs before a vowel or at the end of a word, where the open-mid series occurs instead.
• The schwa is often dropped before, resulting in a syllabic nasal homorganic with the preceding consonant. This occurs after most consonants, including nasals themselves: piepen, slóffen, gieten, kieken, esprungen, lachen. The sequences and are treated the same, except for the fact that they do not assimilate to the place of articulation of the preceding consonant.
• is realized as before vowels and in the word-final position.

  Some examples

Present tense

Past tense

Plurals and diminutives