Editing Scanian dialect (section)

{{Short description|Dialect of southern Swedish}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{contradiction|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Scanian
| altname          = 
| nativename       = {{lang|sv|skånska}}
| states           = [[Sweden]]
| region           = [[Scania]]
| speakers         = ?
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3             = [[North Germanic languages|North Germanic]]
| fam4             = [[East Scandinavian languages|East Scandinavian]]<ref name="glot">{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Skånska | work = [[Glottolog]] 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/skan1239}}</ref>
| fam5             = 
| fam6             = 
| iso3             = none
| linglist         = scy
| lingname         = (retired ISO code)
| glotto           = skan1239
| glottorefname    = Skånska
| ietf             = sv-u-sd-sem
| map              = File:Sverigekarta-Landskap Skåne.svg
| mapscale         = 0.8
| mapcaption       = [[Scania]] in southern [[Sweden]]
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{{Swedish language sidebar}}'''Scanian''' ({{langx|sv|skånska}} {{IPA|sv|ˈskɔ̂nːska||sv-skånska.ogg}}, {{langx|da|skånsk}}) is an [[North Germanic languages|East Scandinavian]] dialect spoken in the province of [[Scania]] in southern [[Sweden]].
Broadly speaking, Scanian has been classified in three different ways:
# Older Scanian formed part of the old [[Scandinavian languages|Scandinavian]] [[dialect continuum]], and is by most historical linguists considered to be an [[East Danish]] dialect group.<ref>Perridon, Harry (2003). "Dialects and written language in Old Nordic II: Old Danish and Old Swedish". p. 1018. Old Nordic III: The ecology of language, in ''The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages''. Volume 1. Eds. Oskar Bandle, Kurt Braunmuller, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Allan Karker, Hans-Peter Naumann and Ulf Teleman. Walter De Gruyter: 2003. {{ISBN|3-11-014876-5}}. See also: Ingers, Ingemar (1939). ''Studier över det sydvästskånska dialektområdet''. Lund: Gleerupska Univ. bokhandeln. (In Swedish) and [https://runeberg.org/nfce/0695.html Nordisk Familjebok] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626003044/https://runeberg.org/nfce/0695.html |date=2006-06-26 }}: "Scanian is one of the three main dialects into which the Danish branch of Old Norse was split". (In Swedish).</ref>
# Due to the modern-era influence from Standard Swedish in the region, and because traditional dialectology in the Scandinavian countries normally has not considered [[isogloss]]es that cut across state borders, the Scanian dialects have normally been treated as part of the [[South Swedish dialects]] by Swedish dialectologists.<ref>Ringgaard, Kristian (2003). "General history of Nordic dialectology". In ''Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages'', p. 280: "[Dialectologists] don't cross the national borders. The Danes say Scanian is an East Danish dialect, and then leave it to the Swedes. The Swedes say the inhabitants of Bornholm speak a South Swedish dialect, and then leave it to the Danes. In Jämtland, [...] they may speak [[Norwegian dialects]], but no [[dialectologist]] has crossed the border since J. Reitan in 1930. Luckily this situation is changing."</ref>
# Many of the early Scandinavian linguists, including [[Adolf Noreen]]<ref>Noreen, Adolf (1887). ''De nordiska språken''. Noreen was a Professor of Nordic Languages at Uppsala university 1887–1919, an internationally recognized linguist, known through his publications in German about Nordic languages.</ref> and G. Sjöstedt,<ref>Sjöstedt, G. (1936). "Studier över r-ljuden i sydskandinaviska mål". Dissertation, Lund University. The title translates to: 'Studies of r-sounds in South-Scandinavian Dialects.' (Published in Swedish).</ref> classified it as "South Scandinavian", and some linguists, such as [[Elias Wessén]], also considered Old Scanian a separate language, classified apart from both Old Danish and Old Swedish.<ref>Holmbäck, Åke and Elias Wessén (1933). ''Svenska landskapslagar, 4th ed.: Skåne och Gutalagen''. Awe Gebers: Uppsala, 1979.</ref>