Scanian dialect

Scanian (Swedish: skånska [ˈskɔ̂nːska] ^ⓘ) is an East Scandinavian dialect spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden.

Broadly speaking, Scanian has been classified in three different ways:

1. Older Scanian formed part of the old Scandinavian dialect continuum, and is by most historical linguists considered to be an East Danish dialect group.
2. Due to the modern-era influence from Standard Swedish in the region, and because traditional dialectology in the Scandinavian countries normally has not considered isoglosses that cut across state borders, the Scanian dialects have normally been treated as part of the South Swedish dialects by Swedish dialectologists.
3. Many of the early Scandinavian linguists, including Adolf Noreen and G. Sjöstedt, 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.