EURPhon: Elfdalian

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Germanic

Lat/lon: 61.23, 14.04

ISO code: ovd

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar
stop	p, b				t, d			k, g
trill					r
tap						ɽ
fricative			f, v	ð	s̺			ɣ
affricate					t̺s̺, d̺z̺
nasal	m				n			ŋ
approximant		w					j
lateral approximant					l, l̥

Long series

	bilabial	labio-dental	alveolar	velar
stop	pː, bː		tː, dː	kː, gː
trill			rː
fricative		fː	s̺ː
affricate			t̺s̺ː, d̺z̺ː
nasal	mː		nː
lateral approximant			lː, l̥ː

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	y
near-close	ɪ, ʏ
close-mid			o̞
open-mid	ɛ, œ		ɔ̞
near-open	æ	ɐ

Short nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ỹ
near-close	ɪ̃, ʏ̃
open-mid	ɛ̃, œ̃		ɔ̞̃
near-open		ɐ̃

Long series

	front	central	back
close	yː
near-close	ɪː, ʏː
close-mid			o̞ː
open-mid	ɛː, œː		ɔ̞ː
near-open	æː
open		aː

Long nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ỹː
near-close	ɪ̃ː, ʏ̃ː
open-mid	ɛ̃ː, œ̃ː		ɔ̞̃ː
open		ãː

Diphthongs

/ai̯ː/, /ãɪ̯ː/, /auː/, /ɪɛ/, /ɪ̃ɛ/, /ɪɛː/, /ɪ̃ɛː/, /uo/, /ũo/, /uoː/, /ũoː/, /yœ/, /ỹœ/, /yœː/, /ỹœː/, /ɔy̯ː/

Triphthongs

/i̯uo/, /i̯ũo/

Source: Sapir, Yair. 2005. Elfdalian, the Vernacular of Övdaln. In Gunnar Nyström Nyström (ed.). Fuost konferensn um övdalskų / Första konferensen om älvdalska.

Comments: In some parts of Övdaln, /ɛ̃/ and /ɛ̃ː/ are realized as [æ̃] and [æ̃ː]. In some parts of Övdaln, /o̞/ and /ɔ̞̃/ are realized as [u] and [ũ] (probably the same is valid for long vowels). /õ̞, õ̞ː/ and /ɔ̞̃, ɔ̞̃ː/ are also regionally distributed. /uo, ũo, uoː, ũoː/ are pronounced as [ʏæ, ʏæ̃, ʏæː, ʏæ̃ː] in some vernaculars. In some villages /l̥/ is pronounced as [sl]. /ð/ and /r/ merge into /r/ regionally. /h/ occurs in some proper names and loanwords.