Jutlandic , or Jutish (Danish: jysk ; pronounced [ˈjysk] ), is the western variety of Danish , spoken on the peninsula of Jutland in Denmark .
47-679: Generally, Jutlandic can be divided into two different dialects: general or Northern Jutlandic ( nørrejysk ; further divided into western and eastern) and Southern Jutlandic ( sønderjysk ). However, the linguistic variation is considerably more complicated and well over 20 separate isoglosses exist throughout Jutland. There are major phonological differences between the dialects, but also very noteworthy morphological, syntactic, and semantic variations. The different subdialects of Jutlandic differ somewhat from each other, and are generally grouped in three main dialects, where two of them are sometimes considered together. Sønderjysk (South Jutlandic)
94-558: A klusil , or plosive, or in some cases a spirant. (See Map 2.1 ) In Vends (Northern Jutlandic) and western South Jutlandic the three pronunciations become: [itj] , [ytj] , and [uk] and they have the same pronunciation but followed by a schwa if not in the coda. An area in North Western Jutlandic designated on the map as Him-V has instead [ikj] , [ykj] and [uk] and in Mid-Western Jutlandic it
141-542: A language border . For example, the front-rounding of /y/ cuts across France and Germany, while the /y/ is absent from Italian and Spanish words that are cognates with the /y/-containing French words. One of the best-known isoglosses is the centum-satem isogloss . Similar to an isogloss, an isograph is a distinguishing feature of a writing system. Both concepts are also used in historical linguistics . The term isogloss (Ancient Greek ἴσος ísos "equal, similar" and γλῶσσα glōssa "tongue, dialect, language")
188-435: A vowel , the meaning of a word, or the use of some morphological or syntactic feature. Isoglosses are a subject of study in dialectology , in which they demarcate the differences between regional dialects of a language; in areal linguistics , in which they represent the extent of borrowing of features between languages in contact with one another; and in the wave model of historical linguistics , in which they indicate
235-475: A distinct accent: The Peter Skautrup Centre for Jutlandic Research is a research centre at Aarhus University and the main centre for Jutlandic dialectology in Denmark. It was established in 1932 (under the name Institut for Jysk Sprog- og Kulturforskning ), originally privately funded by grants, and headed by professor Peter Skautrup . In 1973 it became part of Aarhus University, and currently it forms part of
282-714: A small area of Mid Western Jutland, the vowels become diphthongised with a glide much like in English, and are pronounced as /ej, øj, ow/ . In Northern Jutland, /iː, yː, uː/ are also diphthongised in two syllable words with a glide. Northern Jutlandic always has the glide present ( /ij, yj, uw/ ) and North Western Jutlandic tends towards the glide, but it is not present for all speakers. Long ⟨a⟩ and ⟨å⟩ have been raised to [ɔː] and [oː] respectively in northern Jutlandic, e.g. sagde 'said' [ˈsɔː] = Standard Danish [ˈsæː(ə)] , gå 'go, walk' [ˈɡoːˀ] = Standard Danish [ˈɡ̊ɔːˀ] . Map 2.2 shows
329-458: Is a table depicting the phonemic inventory of Danish and Jutlandic consonants, with phonemes only seen in the dialects of Jutland ( jysk ) in bold . The most prevalent phonological process in Jutlandic consonants is lenition , which is the weakening of originally voiceless consonants in either the coda of a syllable or word as well as intervocalically. This process causes voicing as well as
376-473: Is a tendency towards [ɔw] , but in Mid-Eastern Jutlandic [ow] can be found instead. The same sort of alternation is also seen with [ej] and [æj] . In Mid-Western Jutlandic, Northern Jutlandic and North Western Jutlandic both diphthongs exist. In Mid-Eastern Jutlandic there is an alternation between the two, but each speaker only has one. In Southern Jutlandic and South Jutlandic, only [æj]
423-569: Is also not consistent in the Jutlandic dialects. In the west, where only one gender is present, as well as in all of Southern Jutlandic and South Jutlandic, the definite marker is a free morpheme that comes before the noun. It is not, however, the same as the free morpheme found in standard Danish when an adjective precedes a noun. It is phonetically realised as [æ]. There are also small areas in Jutland where predicate adjectives, as well as adjectives in indefinite noun phrases, have gender congruence in
470-474: Is found. [ɒw] is present as a diphthong in all of Jutland with the exception of the island of Fanø (off of South western Jutland), but has different pronunciations depending on length of the segments. The remaining diphthongs show a distribution based on rounding. In the majority of Jutland the unrounded diphthong is rounded. In South Eastern Jutland the rounded one is unrounded and only in certain parts of Sønderjylland are both diphthongs preserved. Map 2.7 shows
517-464: Is inspired by contour lines , or isopleths, such as isobars . However, the isogloss separates rather than connects points. Consequently, it has been proposed for the term heterogloss ( ἕτερος héteros "other") to be used instead. The centum–satem isogloss of the Indo-European language family relates to the different evolution of the dorsal consonants of Proto-Indo-European (PIE). In
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#1732765739829564-537: Is known for having [w] for the phoneme /v~ʋ/ in all positions, as opposed to only post-vocalically in standard Danish. It also can exhibit stød in slightly different environments from the standard. Standard Danish phonology contains nasal, aspirated voiceless and devoiced plosives (labial, alveolar, and velar). Four voiceless fricatives ( [f, s, ɕ, h] ) are present, as well as four approximants : [ʊ̯, ð̞, ɪ̯, ɐ̯] . There are also four approximants , including three regular and one lateral : [ʋ, l, j, ʁ] . Below
611-432: Is more complex, e.g. hus 'house' [ˈhúːs] = Standard Danish [ˈhuːˀs] ~ huse 'houses' [ˈhùːs] = Standard Danish [ˈhuːsə] . In standard Danish as well as Jutlandic, tone 1 is replaced with a nonsegmental glottalization and tone 2 disappears entirely. Glottalization can only occur on vowels or sonorants and only in one or two-syllable words and is realized in transcription as ['] . However, in two-syllable words
658-462: Is often seen as very difficult for other speakers of Danish, even other Jutlandic dialects to understand. Instead of the normal Danish stød , it has tonal accents like Swedish . Many of the phonemes are also different, including velar fricatives much like in German . It also has the definite article before the noun, as opposed to the standard Danish postclitic article. Østjysk (East Jutlandic)
705-436: Is similar with the /uː/ also containing a glide [ukw] and in all three cases a schwa is inserted if it is not in the coda of the syllable. The rest of North Western Jutlandic along the coast has the schwa as well but a fricative instead of a stop, so the sounds are [iɕ] , [yɕ] , and [uɕ] . In the rest of the Jutlandic dialects the vowel quality is overall the same, with gliding in North Western Jutlandic (Han-V and Han-Ø) on
752-409: Is still present in predicate adjectives. The variability in the examples also reflects differences between number of genders, postclitic versus enclitic article and apocope: [æ ɡʁœn' ɡlas] ; [ɡlast æ ɡʁœnt] . In the rest of Jutland, as a result of apocope, the - t disappears completely: [æt (æn) ɡʁœn' ɡlas] ; [ɡlas.ə(t) (æ ɡlas) æ ɡʁœn'] . The presence of a separate free morpheme definite marker in
799-416: Is still present on sonorants and mid and low vowels in the proper environment. Western Jutlandic also has a stød on the vowel in originally two-syllable words with a geminate voiceless consonant such as ⟨tt⟩ , ⟨kk⟩ , or ⟨pp⟩ e.g. katte 'cats' [ˈkʰaˀt] = Standard Danish [ˈkʰæd̥ə] ; itte 'not' [ˈeˀ(t)] = Standard Danish ikke [ˈeɡ̊ə] . One of
846-427: Is the closest to the standard of the three Jutlandic dialects, but still differs widely in the pronunciation of vowels and the voiced stops word initially or intervocalically. Some dialects of East Jutlandic also still have three genders, like the majority of Norwegian dialects. Vestjysk (West Jutlandic) is also well known for this enclitic article as well as a complete lack of gender distinction. Phonetically, it
893-639: Is the devoiced velar stop [ɡ̊] while ⟨ch⟩ stands for the fricative [χ] . Vends and Læsø are regions usually belonging to the Northern Jutlandic dialectal region whereas Fjolds is the border region between Germany and Denmark, normally considered part of South Jutlandic ( Sønderjysk ). e.g. In Southern Jutlandic, Scandinavian post-vocalic p, k become [f, x] word-finally, whereas Standard Danish has b, g , e.g. søge 'to seek' [ˈsøːx] = Standard Danish [ˈsøː(ɪ̯)] , tabe 'lose' [ˈtʰɑːf] = Standard Danish [ˈtˢæːbə, ˈtˢæːʊ] . In
940-552: The root letters for a word for "child" were w-l-d . However, in the ancient Northwest Semitic languages, the word was y-l-d , with w- > y- . Similarly, Proto-Semitic ā becomes ō in the Canaanite dialects of Northwest Semitic. Within the Aramaic languages and dialects of Northwest Semitic, the historic ā is preserved. Thus, an ancient Northwest Semitic language whose historic ā became ō can be classed as part of
987-403: The 1930s and approximately 1050 hours of audio recordings of dialects from all parts of Jutland. Since 2000, it has been published online, but is still not completely finished. The center estimates (in 2018) that there is 30 years of work left. Isogloss An isogloss , also called a heterogloss , is the geographic boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of
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#17327657398291034-489: The 20th century dialects were usually suppressed by media, state institutions, and schools. In recent decades, a more liberal attitude towards dialects has emerged, but since the number of speakers has decreased, and almost all of the remaining dialect speakers master a regional form of Standard Danish as well, dialects are still being ignored. The new Jutlandic " regiolects " differ from the Copenhagen variety primarily by
1081-631: The Canaanite branch of Northwest Semitic. Such features can be used as data of fundamental importance for the purposes of linguistic classification. Just as there are distinguishing features of related languages, there are also distinguishing features of related scripts. For example, a distinguishing feature of the Iron Age Old Hebrew script is that the letters bet , dalet , ayin and resh do not have an open head, but contemporary Aramaic has open-headed forms. Similarly,
1128-583: The Department of Scandinavian Studies and Experience Economy within the School of Communication and Culture. From 1932 to 1978, the center published the journal Sprog og Kultur ("Language and culture"), and from 1982 onwards Ord & Sag ("Word and cause"). The primary work of the center is focused on building the Jysk Ordbog ("Jutlandic Dictionary"), based on 3 million index cards collected since
1175-676: The Indo-Iranian family, and the other satem families are spoken in adjacent geographic regions, they can be grouped by an isogloss: a geographic line separating satem branches on one side from centum branches on the other. A major isogloss in American English has been identified as the North – Midland isogloss, which demarcates numerous linguistic features, including the Northern Cities vowel shift : regions north of
1222-570: The Latin word for hundred . In other branches (for example, Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian ), the labiovelars merged with the velars: PIE * k eup- became Vedic Sanskrit k opáyati "shaken" and * kʷ o- became Avestan kō "who?"; but *ḱm̥tom became Avestan s atəm . They are known as satem branches, after the Avestan word for hundred . Since the Balto-Slavic family,
1269-530: The South Schleswig dialect, e.g. ben [ˈbiˀən] = Standard Danish [ˈbeːˀn] 'leg', bonde 'farmer' [ˈbuəɲ] = Standard Danish [ˈbɔnə] (< bōndi ). South Jutlandic has the same vowel quality for these vowels, but exhibits a tonal distinction, which is present in place of the Danish stød . Northern Jutlandic raises them without diphthongising them to /iː, yː, uː/ respectively. In Hards,
1316-579: The Standard Danish sin when referring to the subject of the sentence. This means there is no longer a distinction between whether the possessive pronoun refers to the subject of the sentence or a third person, however, use of a word like egen/t 'own' can paraphrastically accomplish the same thing. Today the old dialects, tied as they were to the rural districts, are yielding to new regional standards based on Standard Danish. Several factors have contributed to this process. The dialects, especially in
1363-588: The different possible pronunciations for the standard Danish mid, stressed vowels which is further explained in the following table: Outside of these diphthongs arising from changes in pronunciation from standard Danish long vowels, there are also the following diphthongs: [ow] , [ɔw] , [ej] , [æj] [ɒw] [iw] / [yw] , [ew] / [øw] and [æw] / [œw] . [ow] and [ɔw] are both present in Vends, North Western Jutlandic and Mid-Western Jutlandic but only one occurs in Østjysk, South Jutlandic and Southern Jutlandic. There
1410-498: The east, which could potentially be explained through dialect contact with both Norwegian and Swedish dialects which preserve all three genders. The loss of all gender distinction in the west, though, is unique to Jutlandic. Note though that West Jutlandic still has two noun classes , n - and t -words like standard Danish, they are just not genders. t -words in West Jutlandic are limited to mass nouns . The definite marker
1457-568: The hallmarks of the Scandinavian languages is the postclitic definite marker. For example: en mand 'a man', mand-en 'the man'. In standard Danish this postclitic marker is only used when there is no adjective present, but if there is an adjective, a definite article is used instead: den store mand 'the big man'. Further, standard Danish has a two gender system, distinguishing between the neuter ( intetkøn, -et) and "other" ( fælleskøn, -en ) genders. In Jutland, however, very few dialects match
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1504-430: The lenition as well as which dialects they occur in can be seen in the table below. Multiple possibilities for the same stage are shown separated by a semicolon. In Maps 4.0 and 4.2 the spread of the pronunciation of [d] and [ɡ] are shown. The ⟨÷⟩ represents the null or zero morpheme in the maps, the ⟨-j⟩ and ⟨-r⟩ are [ɪ̯] and [ɐ̯] respectively and ⟨q⟩
1551-512: The line (including Western New York ; Cleveland, Ohio ; lower Michigan ; northern Illinois ; and eastern Wisconsin ) have the shift, while regions south of the line (including Pennsylvania , central and southern Ohio , and most of Indiana ) do not. A feature of the ancient Northwest Semitic languages is w becoming y at the beginning of a word. Thus, in Proto-Semitic and subsequent non-Northwest Semitic languages and dialects,
1598-553: The mainland Scandinavian languages, there are only two genders (Norwegian has three genders, but in Bokmål – one of two written standards – feminine nouns may be inflected like the masculine nouns, making it possible to use only two genders). The masculine and feminine fell together, taking the masculine article (or the feminine in Insular Danish ), and the neuter stayed separate. Three genders remain in northern Jutland and far in
1645-477: The map and only unrounded front vowels in Djurs dialect. As mentioned earlier, the klusilspring is an alternative of the stød that occurs only with high vowels. In the other mainland Scandinavian languages as well as South Jutlandic, there are two different tonemes which distinguish between words that were originally one or two syllables. Tone 1 is a simple rising then falling tone in most dialects and tone 2
1692-405: The neuter form. In the dialects of South Schleswig, easternmost Djurs and the island of Samsø, adjectives take a - t ending which patterns with standard Danish: for example, et grønt glas [æt ɡʁœːnt ɡlas] 'a green glass' and glasset er grønt [ɡlas.ət æ ɡʁœːnt] 'the glass is green'. In Vends (Northern Jutlandic) there is no congruence on adjectives in indefinite noun phrases, but the - t
1739-697: The northern part of Southern Jutland, these sounds are voiced fricatives between vowels, i.e. [v, ɣ] : e.g. søger 'seeks' [ˈsøːɣə] = Standard Danish [ˈsøːɐ] , taber 'loses' [ˈtʰɑːvə] = Standard Danish [ˈtˢæːˀbɐ, ˈtˢæʊ̯ˀɐ] . Standard Danish has a large vowel inventory and contrasts length on many vowels. Vowels can also be glottalized where the so-called stød is present and many change their quality depending on whether or not they are preceded or followed by an /r/ (phonetically [ʁ] ). Jutlandic exhibits many diphthongs not present in standard Danish. The long stressed mid vowels /eː, øː, oː/ are diphthongised as /iə, yə, uə/ respectively in central Jutland and
1786-560: The northernmost, western and southern regions, are often hard to understand for people originating outside Jutland. The dialects also enjoy little prestige both nationally (the population of Zealand like to believe that the Jutlanders are slower not only in speech but also in thought) and regionally (the dialect is associated with rural life). The Danish cultural, media and business life revolves around Copenhagen, and Jutland has only in recent decades seen substantial economic growth. In
1833-437: The reduction from a stop to a fricative and finally to a sonorant . The final step of lenition is then complete apocope . This phenomenon can be seen in all its stages in the Jutlandic dialects, although it shows considerably more variability in the alveolars. The bilabials still have the approximant in one dialect, but no null phoneme and the velars have no sonorants, only a voiceless stop and fricative. The stages of
1880-403: The rounding alternation for the front, close diphthong [iw] / [yw] . An interesting phenomenon in western South Jutlandic and Mid-Western Jutlandic, North Western Jutlandic as well as Northern Jutlandic is the so-called klusilspring . The klusilspring can be seen as a modified stød that only occurs on high vowels ( /iː, yː, uː/ ). These long vowels are shortened and then followed by
1927-485: The second syllable must be a derivational morpheme as the historical environment of tone 1 was one-syllable words and tone 2 only occurred on two-syllable words. Due to apocope and the morphology, both tones and the stød can now be found on one- and two-syllable words. There can be multiple stød segments per word, if the word is a compound, which separates its phonetically from the tonemes of Swedish , Norwegian and South Jutlandic , which can only occur once over
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1974-682: The similarities and differences between members of a language family . Major dialects are typically demarcated by bundles of isoglosses, such as the Benrath line that distinguishes High German from the other West Germanic languages and the La Spezia–Rimini Line that divides the Northern Italian languages and Romance languages west of Italy from Central Italian dialects and Romance languages east of Italy. However, an individual isogloss may or may not have any coterminus with
2021-410: The small potatoes in a set, i.e. those 5 small potatoes on the table. Æ små kartofler refers instead to a mass noun, meaning potatoes that are generally small. It is like saying "the yellow potatoes" in English. It can either mean yellow potatoes as a whole, a mass noun or the yellow potatoes sitting on the table, as opposed to the red ones. There is also a tendency to use hans or hendes instead of
2068-418: The standard in these two aspects. There are dialects with one, two and three genders, as well as dialects lacking the postclitic definite marker entirely. Originally the Scandinavian languages, like modern German as well as Icelandic, had three genders. These three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter are still present in many dialects, notably most dialects of Norwegian. However, in all standard versions of
2115-443: The standard reconstruction, three series of dorsals are recognised: In some branches (for example Greek , Italic and Germanic ), the palatals merged with the velars: PIE * k eup- "tremble (inwardly)" became Latin c upiō "desire" and * ḱ m̥tom "hundred" became Latin c entum (pronounced [kentum]); but * kʷ o- " interrogative pronoun " became qu ō "how? where?". They are known as centum branches, named after
2162-467: The western Jutlandic dialects [æ] has come to cause a contrastive semantic meaning difference with the standard Danish dem. Nouns that can be analyzed as mass nouns, as opposed to count nouns can take the [æ] article before an adjective. If the noun is, however, meant to be a count noun it uses the standard Danish plural article dem . An example of this would be dem små kartofler versus æ små kartofler 'the small potatoes'. Dem små kartofler refers to
2209-420: The whole word. However, in contrast to the standard Danish stød , the Jutlandic stød does not usually occur in monosyllabic words with a sonorant + voiceless consonant. Only Djurs dialect and the city dialect of Aarhus have the stød in this environment. As mentioned before, most of north west Jutland does not have a stød after short high vowels, and instead has the klusilspring . The stød
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