Stavangersk

Phonology

Consonants

• are alveolar.
• As in Bergen and Oslo, younger speakers of the Stavanger dialect tend to merge with.
• is realized as a voiced uvular continuant, either a fricative or an approximant. It can be voiceless before a voiceless consonant or a pause.

  Vowels

• Long and long can be strongly diphthongized to, respectively, and.
• Short is near-close central.
• Short and long are close-mid advanced back.
• Short is open-mid central.
• Long is back.
• Short has the quality of the cardinal vowel, which is the most anterior realization of this vowel in Norway.
• The diphthong has a front starting point.

  Tonemes

Phonetic realization