Scanian

Scanian is the dialect group native to Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden, historically part of Denmark until the province passed to Swedish rule in the 17th century, a history still audible in its speech today. Its prosody, in stress, vowel length and intonation, resembles Danish, German and Dutch more closely than it resembles the rest of Swedish, and it is set apart further by a uvular rather than alveolar /r/ and by distinctive long-vowel developments not found in Standard Swedish. Everyday use has declined over the 20th century under the pressure of urbanization, national broadcasting and internal migration, and while local interest groups have campaigned to have Scanian recognized as a language separate from Swedish, Swedish language authorities continue to classify it as a dialect.