Jutlandic

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Jutlandic or Jutish (jy(d)sk in Danish), is a term for the dialects of Danish spoken on the peninsula of Jutland.

Generally, Jutlandic has been heavily influenced by Middle Saxon and later standard German, especially in the southern regions of Western- and Southern Jutland. This shows by the amount of loanwords with little to no difference from the word's original German spelling/pronunciation, e.g. geschechte (story), taken from German Geschichte.

Historically, Jutlandic has always been an important factor in the "rivalry" between Zealand (the big island) and Jutland (the mainland); the islanders often believe Jutlandic to be somewhat of a "farmer-language".

Jutlandic— again, mostly in the Western and Southern regions, whereas Århus seems to be the least dialect-heavy area— has been traditionally hard to understand for people originating outside Jutland. This is likely due to such radical alternations of words, as a or æ instead of jeg (I). Jutlandic also has a tendency to remove more letters in words, than customary in other regional dialects, like am'n instead of jamen (roughly translated, "but"), or the E at the end of a word (apocope).

Some Jutlandic dialects, unlike official Danish, have the definite article "æ" or "e", corresponding to English "the", while the definite article in official Danish is a suffix of "-en" or "-et" (depending on gender).

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[Jysk Ordbog], by The Peter Skautrup Centre of Jutlandic Dialect Research at the University of Århus

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