Editing Scanian dialect (section)

=== Language politics ===
As pointed out by the Norwegian scholar Lars S. Vikør, professor, Nordic and Linguistics Studies, [[University of Oslo]], in the 2001 book ''Language and Nationalism'', the "animosity between the two countries [Sweden and Denmark], and the relative closeness of their standard languages (dialectal differences within each of the two countries were greater than [between] the two standards), made it imperative to stress the difference between them in the standardization process". According to Vikør, the "Swedish treatment of the Scanians perhaps shows [that] the most important element of the [linguistic nationalism] ideology is the desire to stress the difference from another linguistic entity that in some way may be considered threatening or challenging one's own autonomy."<ref>Barbour, Stephen and Cathie Carmichael ed. (2001). ''Language and Nationalism in Europe''. Oxford University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-19-823671-9}}, p. 109-110.</ref>

In Scania, the Swedish government officially limited the use of Scanian in 1683 by nullifying the self-rule granted in the [[Treaty of Roskilde]] and the Malmö Recess of 1662, where Scania had been granted the right to a certain degree of autonomy including preservation of its old laws<ref>Ditlev Tamm, Helle Vogt, 2016, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qpleCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49 The Danish Medieval Laws: The Laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland], p. 49-50. {{ISBN|9781317294825}}.</ref> and customs.<ref>David Kirby, 2014, [https://books.google.com/books?id=U4yrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA282 Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period: The Baltic World 1492–1772], p. 282-[https://books.google.com/books?id=U4yrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 283]. {{ISBN|9781317902157}}.</ref> Scania became fully integrated into the Swedish Kingdom in 1719, and the assimilation has accelerated during the 20th century, with the dominance of [[Standard Swedish]]-language radio and television, urbanization, and movement of people to and from the other regions of Sweden.

[[Bornholm]] was once part of Skåneland but rebelled and returned to Denmark in 1659. The Scanian dialect of Bornholm remained in use as a functioning transitional stage, but Standard [[Danish (language)|Danish]] soon became dominant in official contexts, and the dialect is thought to be disappearing.<ref>[http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/dlh/dialekt/24.html Statsbiblioteket, Denmark] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629003415/http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/dlh/dialekt/24.html |date=2006-06-29 }}, L. Wimmer & V. Thomsen et al. (1991). ''Danske talesprog, Dialekter, Regionalsprog, Sociolekter.'' For the development of Modern Danish, see also: Hans Basbøll's "Prosody, productivity and word structure: the stød pattern of Modern Danish" and John D. Sundquist's "The Rich Agreement Hypothesis and Early Modern Danish embedded-clause word order" in ''Nordic Journal of Linguistics'' (26, 2003).</ref>