title: Meldal dialect
text: # Meldal dialect
  
  Meldal dialect or Meldal Norwegian is a dialect of Norwegian used in Meldal. It is a variety of Trøndersk.
  
  ## Phonology
  
  ### Vowels
  
  * /iː/ is a syllabic, palatalized dental approximant [ð̩ʲ˕ː]. This is realization is also found in some dialects of Swedish.
  * Old Norse diphthongs ⟨ei⟩ and ⟨øy⟩ are realized as long monophthongs [eː] and [øː]. This is the case in a large part of Sør-Trøndelag in general.
  