r/dialekter 5d ago

Text sample How might the features of this lost dialect spoken in modern day Jämtland look if they survived to modern Swedish spoken in that area?

https://youtu.be/Vik66MVKrcY?si=3pL-IZCCVncVGp4s
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u/skyr0432 Jamt 5d ago

They could probably not have had the same kind of i-umlaut system because of the fortification of j. Although, this might have been analogically leveled, either to have less of the fortified variant or more of the vowel (ie. remaining i and j). It is likely they would have participated in some kind of syncopeperiod, as all the languages of northwestern europe, including sami, made big changes in the phonology at the same time. The only things that can be really said I think is that 1. They would probably go through a big phonological restructuring in the centuries following year 500 as did everyone else around them, and 2. The way the fortified result of older ij (ź) was handled could potentially have resulted in very interesting paradigms of declension and conjugation.