Editing Scanian dialect (section)

== Status ==
There has been active campaigning from local Scanian interest groups to promote Scanian as a separate language on par with the official [[Minority languages in Sweden|minority languages]], though this has been rejected by Swedish authorities. Swedish linguists generally view Scanian as just one of many local or regional Swedish (or Scandinavian) dialects, some of which differ considerably from [[Standard Swedish]] but don't meet the criteria of a separate language.<ref>Spolsky, Bernard (2004). ''Language Policy''. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-01175-2}}; p. 123. For a recent study on the attitudes and the controversy surrounding Scanian, see Göran Hallberg's 2003 paper "Kampen om skånskan", ''Språkvård'' (3/2003).[http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/download/18.42699e142b734b55168a/1398151024425/Spr%C3%A5kv%C3%A5rd+2003-3.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513072556/http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/download/18.42699e142b734b55168a/1398151024425/Spr%C3%A5kv%C3%A5rd+2003-3.pdf|date=2016-05-13}}</ref>

Scanian was originally classified as a separate [[language]] in [[ISO 639-3]], but was declassified as a language in 2009.  A request for reinstatement was submitted during the 2009 annual review process, but rejected on the grounds of mutual intelligibility; it is listed in [[ISO 639-6]] with code scyr.<ref>[http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_Comments_2009-049.pdf Registration Authority decision on Change Request no. 2009-049: to create a new code element &#91;scy&#93; "Scanian"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925013241/http://sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_Comments_2009-049.pdf |date=2011-09-25 }}. "The appropriate part within the ISO 639 body of standards to have an identifier for the language variety Scanian is within the recently adopted ISO 639-6 standard."</ref>

The official stance of the Swedish government, as relayed through the [[Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore|Institute for language and folklore]], is that all languages and dialects which have developed from "a Nordic proto-language", regardless of how independent their development has been from Swedish itself, are ''de facto'' Swedish dialects by virtue of being spoken on the territory where Swedish is the [[National language|national]] or official language.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vad är skillnaden mellan språk och dialekt? |url=https://www.isof.se/stod-och-sprakrad/vanliga-fragor-och-svar/fragor-och-svar/vad-ar-skillnaden-mellan-sprak-och-dialekt |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=www.isof.se |language=sv}}</ref>