Editing Finland Swedish (section)

==Phonology==
[[File:Svenska dialekter i Finland.svg|thumb|Finland Swedish dialects.]]
With the exception of the dialects spoken in [[Ostrobothnia (administrative region)|Ostrobothnia]] along the west coast, close to the [[Gulf of Bothnia]] (example: the dialect spoken in [[Närpes]]), Finland Swedish is not particularly different from Central Swedish. The phoneme {{IPA|/ʉː/}} is more centralized and pronounced like {{IPA|[ʉː]}}, quite similar to how many speakers of English pronounce {{IPA|/uː/}} (as in ''moon''). That should be compared to the Central Swedish {{IPA|[ʉ̟ː]}}, which is very close to the short vowel {{IPA|[ʏː]}} and is more [[rounding|rounded]].

The highly variable [[Sj-sound|''sj'' sound]] {{IPAslink|ɧ}} varies between {{IPA|[ʂ]}} and {{IPA|[ɕ ~ ʃ]}} on the Finnish mainland, often close to ''sh'' in English ''shoe''. In the Åland Islands, its realization is similar to the velar (and often [[labialization|labialized]]) pronunciations of nearby parts of Sweden. The historic ''k'' sound before front vowels and the ''tj'' sound, in modern Central Swedish a [[Fricative consonant|fricative]]  {{IPA|/ɕ/}}, is an [[affricate]] {{IPA|[t͡ɕ]}} or {{IPA|[t͡ʃ]}} in all Finland Swedish dialects, close to ''ch'' in English ''chin'', except for some<ref>{{cite web|title=Äldre man, Brändö: Har ätit sälkött|url=http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Finland/Aland/Brando/om.html|publisher=swedia.ling.gu.se/|access-date=11 February 2014}}</ref> [[Åland dialects]], in which it is a simple fricative [ɕ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Yngre man, Brändö: Brandlarm på Nordsjön|url=http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Finland/Aland/Brando/ym.html|work=swedia.ling.gu.se/|access-date=11 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="Clips of spoken Swedish, in different dialects">{{cite web|title=snabbmeny|url=http://swedia.ling.gu.se/snabbmeny.html|publisher=swedia.ling.gu.se/|access-date=11 February 2014}}</ref>

The [[Pitch accent|tonal word accent]], which distinguishes some minimal pairs in most dialects of Swedish and Norwegian, is not present in Finland Swedish (except around the parish of Snappertuna, west of Helsinki).{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} Hence, Central Swedish [[minimal pair]]s like {{IPA|/ˈandɛn/}} ("the duck") and {{IPA|/ǎndɛn/}} ("the spirit") are both pronounced {{IPA|[ˈandɛn]}} in Finland.

Finland Swedish lacks the [[Aspirated consonant|aspirated stops]] present in Central Standard Swedish, making the contrast between [[Fortis and lenis|"fortis" and "lenis"]] stops one of voicing only.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ringen|first=Catherine|author2=Kari Suomi|title=The voicing contrast in Fenno-Swedish stops|journal=Journal of Phonetics|year=2012|volume=40|issue=3|pages=419–429|doi=10.1016/j.wocn.2012.02.010}}</ref> The retroflexion that occurs in many dialects when {{IPA|/r/}} precedes a coronal consonant does not occur in certain pairs in Finland Swedish (e.g. {{IPA|/rt/}}, which is realized as {{IPA|[ʈ]}} in Standard Swedish but {{IPA|[rt]}} in Finland Swedish).<ref>{{cite book |last=Kuronen |first=Mikko |chapter=Finns det supradentala konsonanter även i finlandssvenskan? |chapter-url=http://users.jyu.fi/~mijukuro/supradentaler.pdf |title=Svenskans beskrivning 26 |publisher=Hallgren & Fallgren |year=2003 |pages=172–177 |lang=sv}}</ref>