Scanian dialect

<p>Scanian  is an <a href="/facts/North_Germanic_languages/zocYfWp8">East Scandinavian</a> dialect spoken in the province of <a href="/facts/Scania/rKQGu0hG">Scania</a> in southern <a href="/facts/Sweden/u3qC7lyj">Sweden</a>.
</p><p>Broadly speaking, Scanian has been classified in three different ways:
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<ol><li>Older Scanian formed part of the old <a href="/facts/Scandinavian_languages/zocYfWp8">Scandinavian</a> <a href="/facts/Dialect_continuum/0QAuqxp3">dialect continuum</a>, and is by most historical linguists considered to be an <a href="/facts/East_Danish/uIKFgRHF">East Danish</a> dialect group.</li>
<li>Due to the modern-era influence from Standard Swedish in the region, and because traditional dialectology in the Scandinavian countries normally has not considered <a href="/facts/Isogloss/5BA2RsAr">isoglosses</a> that cut across state borders, the Scanian dialects have normally been treated as part of the <a href="/facts/South_Swedish_dialects/rCC4xMEV">South Swedish dialects</a> by Swedish dialectologists.</li>
<li>Many of the early Scandinavian linguists, including <a href="/facts/Adolf_Noreen/BHAx5TpH">Adolf Noreen</a> and G. Sjöstedt, classified it as "South Scandinavian", and some linguists, such as <a href="/facts/Elias_Wess%C3%A9n/JfXCbcUl">Elias Wessén</a>, also considered Old Scanian a separate language, classified apart from both Old Danish and Old Swedish.</li></ol>

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Scanian dialect