Hallingmål-Valdris

HallingmÃÂ¥l-Valdris (also known by the individual names Halling, HallingdÃÂ¸l, or ValdresmÃÂ¥l) is a group of Norwegian dialects traditionally spoken in the traditional districts of Hallingdal in Buskerud county and Valdres in Innlandet county.

Phonology

is usually realized as a prestopped nasal , while the allophone only occurs in words like baren () "the bar".
also has a prestopped realization .
The phoneme which is commonly called thick L (written in IPA), exists in words that had either or in Old Norse. In Vang Municipality, occurs only in the first case.
The consonant clusters , , and were not pronounced as , only was. SÃÂ¸rbygdi in FlÃÂ¥ Municipality pronounces as , while Gulsvik pronounces it as .
The consonant clusters and were mostly assimilated to . Hol Municipality and ÃÂl Municipality assimilated these to , and SÃÂ¸rbygdi in FlÃÂ¥ Municipality assimilated to .
The clusters , and are pronounced as spelled.
The Old Norse cluster is pronounced as assimilated or .

The back vowels and in older HallingmÃÂ¥l-Valdris were pronounced as in Old Norse, without the vowel shift to, respectively, and that is found in most other Norwegian dialects.
The short Old Norse vowels and are pronounced as central almost everywhere, except for ÃÂl Municipality (but not Torpo), where these are back . In Valdres (except for Vang Municipality), the schwa can also be realized as .
Traditionally, were pronounced as open-mid .
The words pronounced and mean "I" and "am", respectively.
Itacism is found in southern Hallingdal (FlÃÂ¥ Municipality, Nesbyen Municipality and some in Gol Municipality), making the vowel to be unrounded to .
The Old Norse diphthongs , and are traditionally pronounced as , ( in southern Hallingdal) and . This is occurs today especially in upper Valdres and Hol Municipality, and ÃÂl Municipality.