South Ostrobothnian dialect
Finnish dialect
South Ostrobothnian dialect (Finnish: Etelä-Pohjanmaan murre) is a Western Finnish dialect. It is traditionally spoken in the region of South Ostrobothnia and parts of Coastal Ostrobothnia. The South Ostrobothnian dialect has many features that are unique to the region of South Ostrobothnia.
South Ostrobothnian is surrounded by 4 different forms of speech, Savonian, Tavastian, Southwestern Finnish (Northern Satakunta) and Swedish. Savonian has mainly influenced eastern South Ostrobothnian, Tavastian has influenced southeastern South Ostrobothnian and western South Ostrobothnian was influenced more by Swedish.
Features
Written Finnish /d/ has changed into /r/
saara "get" (Written: saada)
Written Finnish ts is tt
mettä "forest" (Written: metsä)
Diphthongs
uo, yö and ie are ua, yä and iä in the northern regions of South Ostrobothnian - nuari "young" (Written: nuori)
Middle vowel
tylysä "boring" (Written: tylsä)
Inessive ending
maas(s) "in the ground" (Written: maassa)
Vowel i-
i- in written Finnish is replaced by a long vowel - keltaanen "yellow" (Written: keltainen)
Consonant gradiation
jalka - jalaat "foot" - "feet" (Written: jalka - jalat)
Verb conjugation
tuomma "we bring" - toimma "we brought" (Written: tuomme - toimme), tuutta "you come" - tulitta "you came" (Written: tulette - tulitte)
Vocabulary
fiini 'nice' (Written: hieno)
(f)likka 'girl' (Written: tyttö)
friiari 'suitor' (Written: kosija)
föli(j)ys 'with' (Written: mukana)
hantuuki 'hand towel' (Written: käsipyyhe)
(k)lasi 'window' / silimä(k)lasit 'eyeglasses' (Written: ikkuna/silmälasit )
kranni 'neighbour' (Written: naapuri)
kränä 'quarrel' (Written: riita)
notta/niij jotta 'so that' (Written: niin, että)
perna 'potato' (Written: peruna)
pirättää 'stop' (Written: pidättää)
praatata 'chat' (Written: jutella)
pruukata 'be used to' (Written: olla tapana )
pöröttää 'reverse' (Written: peruuttaa)
moon 'I am' (Written: (minä) olen)
soot 'you are' (Written: (sinä) olet)
son 'he/she/"it" is' (Written: hän/"se" on )
moomma 'we are' (Written: (me) olemme )
tootta 'you are' (Written: (te) olette)
non 'they are' (Written: he/"ne" ovat)
Example
Example from Kurikka, 11.6.1965
Kuinkas sitä maata silloon vilijeltihin, kun te sellaanen pieni poika vielä olit(ta)?
– No, ei silloon ollu, sitten apulannoosta juuri mitää tietua vielä. Joku taloollinen osti luujauhoja, mutta torpparit ei niitä pystyny ostamahan. Luujauho, soli ensimmäänen apulanta, mitä minä muistan, joton käytetty.
Written:
Kuinka maata viljeltiin silloin, kun olit(te) vielä pieni poika?
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