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{{Redirect|Götamål |the dialects of Swedish spoken on the island of Gotland|Gutamål}}
'''Götamål''' is one of the six dialect areas of the [[Swedish language]], mostly heard in [[Västergötland]], [[Dalsland]], northern [[Halland]], northern [[Småland]] and [[Östergötland]]. However, it is also heard in [[Bohuslän]] and [[Värmland]]. Examples of Götamål features are [[vowel reduction]], vowel shortening in front of endings and loss of /r/ in suffixes, such as in ''hästa'' instead of ''hästar'', eng. horses.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Frid |first=Johan |date=2007 |title=Automatic classification of front and back pronunciation<!-- "pronounciation" in the original --> variants of /r/ in the Götaland dialects of Swedish: Fonetik 2007 |url=https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/automatic-classification-of-front-and-back-pronounciation-variant |journal=Proceedings of Fonetik 2007/TMH-QPSR |volume=50 |pages=113–116}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Swedish language]]
* [[Swedish dialects]]
==References==
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==Further reading==
* [http://www.ne.se/g%C3%B6tam%C3%A5l Götamål in Swedish at NE.se]
* [http://www.mimersbrunn.se/Dialekter_7818.htm Mimersbrunn (about all Swedish dialect areas in Swedish)]
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