Simple Swedish Podcast - #315 - Svenska dialekter

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

En dialekt är en variation inom ett språk. På engelska säger man ofta "accent". Men på svenska säger vi dialekt om vi talar om en språklig variation hos en modersmålstalare.  Här kommer ett avsnitt om svenska dialekter! Länk till nyhetsbrevet här Vill du få mer info om pilotprojektet och anmäla ditt intresse - hör av dig till [e-mail]   Transkript Hallå där och välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast. Idag ska vi prata om svenska dialekter. Och jag tror det här är ett ämne som många är intresserade av. Så jag ska prata om svenska dialekter. Vad är en dialekt, lite historia, lite intressanta psykologiska saker. Och så ska jag gå igenom några av de mest kända dialekterna i Sverige och prata om dem. Och innan vi börjar så vill jag säga någonting viktigt, ett viktigt meddelande. Så, jag söker nu 10 personer för mitt helt nya projekt. Jag söker tio personer som har studerat mycket svenska, förstår mycket svenska, till exempel att man förstår den här podden ganska bra. Men man känner att man fortfarande inte talar flytande, man använder fortfarande engelska med svenskar.. Man kanske är frustrerad att man fortfarande inte talar flytande, att man inte känner sig fri på svenska. Så om du känner att det här passar på dig, att du redan förstår mycket svenska, du har redan pluggat mycket svenska, kan mycket svenska.. Men det är fortfarande svårt med att prata med svenskar, att förstå saker runt dig, böcker, filmer, serier och så vidare. Okej. Då passar du som en av de här personerna. Och om du är redo att investera i dig själv och få resultat så kan det här vara intressant för dig. Det här kommer vara 6 månader. Du kommer fokusera på att börja leva språket, så sluta vara student och börja leva svenska. Tillsammans med en grupp dedikerade elever och med mig och mitt team av mina bästa lärare. Så kan du vara med i det här pilotprojektet, alltså en av de första personerna som är med i det här programmet. Och du kan då vara med att, ja, forma det helt enkelt. Så hör av dig till mig och anmäl ditt intresse och få mer information. Så du kan skriva till [e-mail]. Och vi kommer börja i mars. Så se till att anmäla dig så fort som möjligt. Och det finns bara 10 platser. Så, det var det. Jag är taggad inför det projektet, det kommer bli jättejättekul! Men ja, idag ska vi som sagt prata om dialekter och jag ska tacka några patrons: İlkgül, Zmai, Mariia, Karin, Nuala, Joana, Hamza, Robin, och Rafa. Tack till er för att ni stödjer podden! Så, först och främst, vad är en dialekt? Så en dialekt är en variation av ett språk. ..för hela transkriptet plus uppgifter till alla avsnitt, bli community member på Simple Swedish Center - klicka här för en 7 dagars gratis provperiod!

Hello there and welcome to Simple Swedish Podcast. Today, we're talking about Swedish dialects. And I think this is an emne that many are interested in. So, yeah, I'm going to talk about Swedish dialects. What is a dialect? history, little interesting, psychological things and so I go in through some of the most

the most-kended dialects in Sweden and before we begin so I will I say something important, a important medalland so I'm

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we so we say, talk on dialects and I should

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stodgerpodden. So, first and first and frermest, what is an dialect? So, an dialect is like a variation of a sprach. So in Swedish

have we, to example, Skonska, Yoteborska, Stockholmska, in Sturbritania, have them all different dialects in London and in Scotland and in in Scotland and in Liverpool and so, so that

you have all different variations in the so, a dialect has, in-bland, e-gna-ord, a dialect has a little a-eget-ut-utal, e-gna-sbrokyud. To example,

so, We have we different for R in I say R, I say R, so here, a r, a r, we say also a fremre R, for that it is

from in munen. But, length-neer in Sweden, in, to example, Skone, there, they're,

they're, a backre, er, nere in halsen, as they have in Denmark and and Germany and

we have different different different and in different words and

sometimes can it to be there to find there in grammatik so

okay so little history on the swenska dialects so

those Scandinavianian And the Orinavisca sproken, they come from from phonodiscan. So phonodiscan was, also, as one-sproc. And it was, maybe, that was kind of the vikings. And then, there was not Swedish, Norse, Danish, Danska, Icelandic, some e-gnawark.

But it was a one-sprook, fun-nodiscan. It then delated then in two grener and then was Sweden and Denmark in

same sprok-gren so that Swanscan and Danscan are historically nearer

slect than to example the and the same and now for the

time so are Swans and Norcan can maybe more But historically So, so is

Swanskhan and Danskan Nermere-slick. And one thing that is very interesting with dialect is that it is very stark-coplated

to identity and and to-hurt for often is so that

a person who has a stark dialect knows a stark to hear a stark to their ham tracter also there you come from so say to example a person, I have a

comps from from Vermland and he he, he, he He knows very stark that he is from Vermland He knows a stark

Tirlinget To Vermland He knows He's really Like a vermelenning And he's He prattar with a very

stark Wermlensk Dialect And other people who can't have been to

an other And you're not even even to move to an other state for that people who can't not know so much to their

ham tracter, they usually have a more dialect. So it has much about the this

kind of this kind of the that you that you know, that you know, that you

identify, with a lot more than you know, a, um,rode, or the people there. But, yeah, so, if you, if you, if you, like, if you're, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm, I hear, home here, then, then, you're talking with a starker dialect.

But, people who, maybe not identify so much with their hemtractor. They're have a more neutral dialect. And it is a trend that dialects

are more and more neutrala. So. And it is so-clart a little sinned, for that it's a little cool with dialects, I think I. And we're going

I go through some swenical dialects now. And we begin with I'm

not with I'm not from I'm from a state quite near to I'm

but my Upsbrungsdialect is not Yote thereymot so has

I've got a deal influences from getperper in my dialect for that I

I flewtied to I'm and I I gillade I'm going to I'm really yeah

be a deal of but I know that I didn't be not a

get a get so it has also so it also in my

dialect that I have a little blandat Yoteborska and Weshutskia and Weshutskia

and Weshutsked talk in Wester Götterland but we should start with

we should begin with Yteborskan so we have some drag also

some different and some characterizing characterizing Yoteborscan and

maybe especially the typical Ytberborscan that often talkas of little elder

people for as we have dialects they have slatas out little bit, they're

more and more typical and characteristic. But we should talk here on the very characteristic drags that that's, but that's maybe

even more have funnest historically. So it's fairer people who have these dragen now in their dialect, but it

still. To example, for Getterborskan so say you can't fesk

instead for fish so a short i will it so we

see fesk instead for fish and to example a short

i will often a short uh so a church

and a church and we have a very a very

a very a very kind uh in in the which called us

for feskechurcha so feskeker would on the vanly swenks

would be fiscke church but on get there feskechurcha and

we have also that a short o and a short u will

be a the the so an door will like

a dour and mund So a city near Yutterborough, Soutre of Yutterb,

it'll be like Mundal, Mundal instead for Mundal. And one thing that is also characteristic

is that D, T, S, N and L they are little chocker and they

don't not when we have a R front for. In many swenkska dialects we

a retroflexed lute. So we have generally in the Swedish there's to example

a board and a bod. B-O-R-D B-O-D, B-O-D, B-D, B-D, it's

a skilln But, but on Yeteborka is there no sign we say BOD.

And we say for-st-st-st-o, instead for forstow. And, yeah, so we have not the here retroflexa theudet, but

sametid, so are the here these little chocker than a vanly D, to example. A Yoteborst, D, maybe are little, little,

chocker, or a little longer, back in the munen. So, you, instead for you. D, D, D, you.

An really great thing with get when we tell a person

and you say hey you hey or like you say

you you want you want to say you die say you die

die it is typical get get typically get

we have many words also to example enna

which not it It means anna anything. Enna, it's just

sort of word that we have in the Borska that doesn't mean,

and we go here up in the end up, in the lot it is a little glatt

so. So that it goes even up in the end up in the end here.

And we say, to example, this book instead for this here

book and on correct swenksweenska so say if we use this, so you can say this book. But in Yoteborska we like to say this book.

So, and the most see Yoteborscan as a quite he's a very dialect. So it's like good, it's

got to gutt and we say it's a typical Yoteborstor that we say gutt. It's good. It's good. It's... We gillard and have it good,

and when we say hey-doh to people, then we say, hey-doh to people. And it's also in other dialects around them, but I don't think it's in Stockholm. It's said, we don't, have it good. And in Yucetborg, so we don't... We gila not a Stockholmer.

We think they're dryga, That was my imitation of Getterborska, I think it's quite but not perfect. So, it was quite long about about gett about we can't take it a little

little a little, little more information on the other dialects. We have West Shotska as you're in Westeragetland

and, yeah, So Allings-Sos, the stadens I come from, there taleming the wetschewkska, but there are different variations of wetschewkska. We have, to example, often a choked l, a l, it is, you know, it's blot, or, it's blot.

So, instead of blut, say we blut. You can't do something with tongue So that it will blut It's blu Where I can't come So we have a choked L A L

An ali We say it not L We say ali We say ali An ali And we have Often a backre R

But but just in Burgeon of word So we say rondell a rondell instead for rondell in rondell

in rondell it's it's blink out in rondellan blink out in rondellan

instead for blinka out out from rondellan I blink out out of

rondallen and so it so it wetschot it it's little

bonit can you say also it's lantl that people

from landet So. Then have we Wermland And in Wormland there go But there go

But there's up Little on Slutter on And we have So, She-yudet

Say we She. So we say Shue Shoe Shoe Shukshetersk

Shor And we Sayer D Instead for Dom So they say Shue instead of

They say seven They say seven in Varmland And it It's also a It's also a little Gutt so there For that it goes up in the Slut there on the

So it has little Likeheter with Norseka Can you say Then we Norlenska Some Egencline is

Many different Dialects But in southern in the Swedish say we Norl they're

also a shogt eri so they say airy and they they have

also a she jude so they're so they're so they're so they're

but they have a little other things so they're they say I think

instead for I think and she sit instead for she sits so

yeah I think it I think it I think it is good or I think they're fine

so they have often not plural on so they are fine

so instead for they are fine so say them yeah I think

they're fine instead for I think they are fine. I think

them are fine. I can't... I can't... They say not. They're not. So I can not... I can't imitate

Norlansk and so but I can try. So it's a little so here. They're... They're... They're talking

quite long. And... Yeah. They say not so much. I don't they say not so

much in Norland so they're they're they're they're they're they're

they're they're they're they're skoters, they're skoters skoters, so it's

norlenska then then we then have we do dalana and dalana maybe is the most

special in the most special dialects for they have many different dialects and dialects are there are, there are

dialects that are so different swanscan that they actually are other's sprok and all different biars in Dalarna have, like,

like its own and we call them for dalmol so there are different dalmol

so there are different dialects in dalana and they can have quar the

different Nordiscan that not there not there there there can't

there can't there there can't there can't be diphtonger and other jude and Elvdalscan

is, maybe the most chended of these dialects. So, call up Elvdalska. Google on Elvdalska. So, you'll listen to

a dialect that actually is an egett, so it's very interesting. I can not hermma, we have also

an dialect, as just a general dalmol so it's just an other sproak

melody. So they have also when they they're they're a very Swedish

so have them an another melody often. They are dalemol it

that's little so here. Then have we Stockholmska and And many think that Stockholm's

lonesk are a little snobbitt, that they're loughter to be dryg is, well, to be a little arrogant type. So, people think that Stockholm's gonna look a little drygut.

Yeah, but that they, they, like, they're, like, they're, like, they're little bit like, they're little over-sittar. They're talking a little, and they're, they're, They're stekare, like, they're on a stureplan. But, yeah,

actually, it's not all Stockholmers who are so here, but it's, but it is, we, it is, little, little more interesting to talk about stereotypes, so, yeah, but, they, and they have a sort of in,

that, um, they, they, they, they're, we, so we, we, in Stockholmer, and we are little better than your other in Sweden. Yeah, it's well, it's a little so they're talking in Stockholm, in Stockholm. And then, then have we, then

Sconska. And Skonskhan, it is well the most special dialect. And we can't, we can't call it for an dialect. For, for, that we who,

who are from Skona or who aren't from Skona we, we, we think that Skonings

have one, one dialect but they have, they have actually many dialects

in Skone. But, but it's just, it's just Skoningerer that can hear

the, shillard on the different different dialects. They have diphtonger, so they say, like, in different dialects. They say, like, gauss instead for gauze, and stone, instead for stone.

So they say godis, instead of goodies. So they have such dithonger. And they have a backre r. And they have their own words, as, to example, trellit. So, yeah, it's very special

with Skona. And I, I, I like, I, I like, skonska, actually. And that we, so,

so, then, so the very, most, the very soudrast delen of the world. And then,

sist, but, not minst, have we, then, then Finland's Swedish and they

are very special to give to different from dialects in Sweden. They're quite

very longna and in in in Sweden there is it's hard to

hear a between Finland's Swedish and a A finlandian person who

are Swedish. So, they have, little different different different different.

So they say, to example, 20 instead for 20. So they have a

this, the here, the judet, so, they say chugo. Kherabil

instead for Kira car, so I say to Kira. And they say,

Kora. And, They have not retroflexa lute, so they can't say person instead for person or ord

instead for word. They have also often DJ also that that you that you, that you, that you

so I say you're, but they can't say djur. and vocal The vocals are

different Sheedur It's anerlundas So there are many Many different between Finland's

and Swedish and So it is interesting They have And it And it's There are

And there are And there are also Soclature And And It's also An Estland

Swenska So it You're, man, actually, Svanska in Estland also for long since, but there's nearly never

even in-c-quare-langer who talk Est-land-Svanska. But that dialecten is really special. I heard an in-spelning a-gong with

Est-Lans-Svanska. Very, very special dialect. Yeah, so this was about about the Swedish dialects. Hopas it was interesting.

And, yeah, there are many interesting videos on YouTube on Svanska Dialects. And I'm also out a newhead's brief on Svvvvvv, a little like a compliment to podden with little linkers and so on things. And I usually skisgack a newhead's brief with recommendations and tips. Often, on Lettsvanska, so

Prenumerary on on Newhetesbrevet. I linker to that. And, as said, if you know that 2026, it is the year, I should begin to live, the Swedish,

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