East Danish

East Danish
East Danish
Native to	Denmark, Sweden
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic East Scandinavian Danish East Danish; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Blekingska; Bornholmsk; Skånska;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	scan1238

East Danish refers to dialects of the Danish language spoken in Bornholm (Bornholmsk dialect) in Denmark and in Blekinge, Halland, Skåne (Scanian dialect) and the southern parts of Småland in Sweden. After Scania, Halland and Blekinge were annexed by Sweden in the 17th century, the dialects have been under Swedish influence. Most residents now speak regionally influenced Standard Swedish. The original dialects are still considered to be part of the East Danish dialect group by many researchers,^[2] so they can be considered as both East Danish and South Swedish dialects.

References

^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "East Danish". Glottolog 4.3.
^ Harry Perridon (2003). «Dialects and written language in Old Nordic II: Old Danish and Old Swedish». In: Oskar Bandle, Kurt Braunmuller, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Allan Karker, Hans-Peter Naumann og Ulf Teleman. The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. I. ISBN 3-11-014876-5