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Lulemål or Lulebondska is one of the more northern varieties of Bondska, it has some of the
most unique phonological variations, unique from Pitemål, Skelleftemål and Kalixmål. It is
often quite hard even for other speakers of Bondska to understand. In Lulemål the Old Norse
long a remains, pa ‘on’, Swedish på, fa ‘get’, Swedish få. The Lule language has unusual
examples of diphthongisation and differs considerably from other Bondska dialects.
There are differences in the Lule Bondska diphthongs across different parts of the valley,
even in the quite localized lower area of the valley, the diphthong eo in steor can also be öo,
stöor, with other variants of this diphthong such as åo in ståor spoken not far away. Long
vowels can vary from one district to another, like höörd instead of hoord. There are
differences in the way some speakers use v and w, or where the sch sound develops.
Another dialect spoken to the north of the main Lule Bondska area is the Koikul dialect. The
Koikul dialect was spoken far to the north, subsequently some Meänkieli and Sámi words
have entered the dialect.
Further reading
More can be found out about the Koikul dialect at this website http://www.koikul.se, I was
lucky to learn some of the dialect from some of its remaining speakers. It is difficult to find
resources on the other Lule dialects without going there and learning from the people who
speak it, but there is one dictionary Ordbok över lulemålet : på grundval av dialekten i Antnäs
by, Nederluleå socken by Jan-Olov Nyström.