Peräpohjola dialects

The Peräpohjola dialects ( fin. peräpohjalaiset murteet ) form a group of dialects of the Finnish language. They are counted among the western Finnish dialects, but have, as well as the medium and nordösterbottnischen dialects, influences from the eastern Finnish dialects on.

The language area of these dialects mainly comprises the area of ​​Finnish Lapland. Addition, however, also include the Finnish-speaking areas in northern Sweden to the west of the border river Torne älv ( swedish ) or Tornionjoki ( fin. ), as well as the dialects of the Finns in the northern Norwegian Finnmark ( fin. Ruijan suomalaiset ) to this dialect area. In a fine structure, these dialects still split into five subgroups.

Linguistic features

Some important features which are differ Peräpohjola dialects of other dialects, as well as the default language:

• A standard linguistic d, which represents the product of the step change at t (for example, nominative singular vuosi ' year ' with a sound change * ti > si, see the partitive genitive singular vuotta ~ vuoden; nominative singular pata ' pot ' ~. Gen. Sg Padan; infinitive soutaa ' row ' ~ 1st person singular present soudan ' I Row '), appears as in eastern Finland, as well as the Central and nordösterbottnischen dialects other than j, v or as failed. That is, a standard linguistic vuoden appears as vuojen, a soudan as souvan, a Padan as paan.
• Standard Linguistic ts appears as a dd, not subject to the stage change, so for example standard Finnish ( std. -fin. ) Metsä ' forest' ~ metsän ' of the forest ' corresponds to a metta ~ mettän.
• In the western part of this area dialect word-initial consonant clusters are possible, for example klasi ' glass ' as opposed to Eastern, or standardsprachlichem lasi.
• It can occur scion vowels to break up consonant clusters. So corresponds std. -fin. Vanha ' old ' with dialektalem vanaha, or std. -fin. ihminen ' man ' with ihiminen.
• Standard Linguistic v can fail before or after Labialvokalen, for example heonen instead hevonen ' horse ' or hyaE instead hyvä ' good'.