Övdalian
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dalecarlian, Övdalsk, Övdalską, Elfdalian
thumb|Maps of settlements in Älvdalen parish, Sweden, and the percentage of the population speaking Övdalian (2008 data)
Key facts
- Language.name
- Övdalian
- Language.altname
- Elfdalian
- Language.ethnicity
- Swedish
- Language.states
- Sweden
- Language.region
- Älvdalen, Dalarna
- Language.date
- 2023
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.fam3
- North Germanic
- Language.fam4
- East Scandinavian with West Scandinavian elements (or Central Scandinavian)
- Language.fam5
- Dalecarlian
- Language.agency
- Swedish Language Council
- Language.iso3
- ovd
- Language.linglist
- qer
- Language.glotto
- elfd1234
- Language.glottorefname
- Elfdalian
- Language.map
- Älvdalen Municipality in Dalarna County.png
- Language.mapcaption
- Älvdalen Municipality in Dalarna, where Övdalian is spoken in the southeastern half
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Dalecarlian
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Dalarna County
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- has grammatical case
- accusative case
- uses capitalization for
- proper noun
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ovd
- Wikimedia language code
- ovd
- writing system
- Latin script
- topic's main category
- Category:Elfdalian language
- indigenous to
- Älvdalen
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2000
- P10369
- (9557) 1986 QL2
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Characteristics
- Archaisms
- Innovations and unique developments
- Status
- Preservation and standardization
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Diphthongs
- Nasal vowel sounds
- Prosody
- Writing systems
- Råðdjärum's orthography
- Elfdalian alphabet
- Grammar
- Morphology
- Syntax
- New organisms named after Övdalian
- Notes
- References
- English
- Swedish
thumb|Maps of settlements in Älvdalen parish, Sweden, and the percentage of the population speaking Övdalian (2008 data)
Övdalian or Elfdalian ( or , ; or ) is a North Germanic language spoken by around 3,000 people who live or have grown up in the locality of Älvdalen (''''), in the southeast of Älvdalen Municipality in northern Dalarna, Sweden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Övdalian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.