Rauma dialect

Rauma dialect
Rauma dialect
Rauman giäl
Region	Rauma
Language family	Uralic Finnic Finnish Rauma dialect; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
	The city of Rauma, where Rauma is spoken

Rauma dialect ("rauman giäl", "language of Rauma") is a Southwestern dialect of Finnish spoken in the town of Rauma, Finland.

The written form of the dialect was preserved by the writer and doctor Hj. Nortamo, and is currently practiced mainly as a hobby. Some of the most distinctive characteristics of the dialect (as written) are the use of letters 'g' and 'b', which are uncommon in the Finnish language. Pronunciation of these letters is, however, is in between 'g' and 'b' and 'k' and 'p' of mainstream Finnish. And the shortening of words.^[1] The Rauma dialect also contains its own pitch accent.^[2]

^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: RAUMAN GIÄLEN GOUL 1. YouTube.
^ "Eurajoen murrepiirteitä". Kotimaisten kielten keskus (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-05-29.

[1] Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: RAUMAN GIÄLEN GOUL 1. YouTube.

[2] "Eurajoen murrepiirteitä". Kotimaisten kielten keskus (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-05-29.

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