Sandnes-mål

Phonology

Consonants

• Between and after vowels, the voiceless plosives are realized as voiced.
• merges with into.
• is uvular.

  Vowels

• The close vowels are rather lax .
• The unrounded–rounded pairs have a very similar backness, and differ mainly by rounding.
• are mid, whereas are open-mid.
• are near-open; the long vowel is central, whereas the short vowel is somewhat more front.
• The components of the diphthongs are phonetically close to the short vowels transcribed with the same symbols, so that is phonetically more or less, whereas and are phonetically more or less, respectively, and.