Swedish, Gamlakarleby
Facts
- Language: Swedish, Gamlakarleby
- Alternate names: Gamlakarlebymål
- Language code: dswek
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, North Germanic, North Scandinavian, East-Central Swedic, East Swedic
- Dialect of: Swedish
- Number of speakers:
- Script: Latin script
More information:
Introduction
Gamlakarleby Swedish is linguistic variety of Standard Swedish language. It is spoken in Karleby municipality and its surroundings in Finland.
The language cited here is refers to the language spoken in the end of the 19th century.
The verb
The verb is inflected in the same tenses as standard Swedish. Also the verbs follow the same conjugation classes and the division in regular and irregular verbs.
The inflections, however, differ a lot of from standard Swedish.
Sample verb
Regular verbs
- Infinitive: klaga
- Present participle: klagand
- Past participle: klaga
| Indicative Present | Indicative Past | Subjunctive | Imperative | |
| Sg.1 | klagar | klaga | klagi | - |
| Sg.2 | klag(a)! | |||
| Sg.3 | - | |||
| Pl.1 | - | |||
| Pl.2 | klagin | klagin! | ||
| Pl.3 | klagi | - |
Irregular verbs
vara
- Infinitive: vara
- Present participle: varand
- Past participle: vari
| Indicative Present | Indicative Past | Subjunctive Present | Subjunctive Past | Imperative | |
| Sg.1 | æ / ær / jær | var | ? | vor | - |
| Sg.2 | var! | ||||
| Sg.3 | - | ||||
| Pl.1 | - | ||||
| Pl.2 | varin! | ||||
| Pl.3 | - |
bit
- Infinitive: bit
- Present participle: bitand
- Past participle: biti
| Indicative Present | Indicative Past | Subjunctive | Imperative | |
| Sg.1 | biter | beit | biti | - |
| Sg.2 | bit! | |||
| Sg.3 | - | |||
| Pl.1 | - | |||
| Pl.2 | bitin | bitin! | ||
| Pl.3 | biti | - |
References
- Hagfårs, K.J.. Gamlakarlebymålet. Helsinki, 1891.