Dalecarlian dialects

Dalecarlian dialects
Dalecarlian
Dalmål
Spoken in Sweden
Region Dalarna County
Native speakers
Language family
Indo-European
Official status
Official language in None
Regulated by Dalmålsakademin [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List dlc

Dalecarlian (Dalmål in vernacular and Swedish) is a group of dialects or unofficial languages spoken in Dalecarlia, Sweden. The most prominent is Elfdalian.

The group is as follows:

  • Old Swedish
    • Dalecarlian
      • Dalecarlian (the dialect of Dalarna)
        • OvanSiljan
        • NedanSiljan
          • Bodamål
          • Rättviksmål
          • Siljansnäsmål
          • Leksandsmål
          • Bjursmål
          • Ålmål
          • Gagnefsmål
        • VästerDalarna
          • Transtrandsmål
          • Limamål
          • Malungsmål
          • Äppelbomål
          • Järnamål
          • Flodamål
          • Nåsmål

Orthography

This has at some point been written in Dalecarlian runes.



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