:Danish dialects

Image:Denmark-stoed.png}} in Danish dialects. Dialects in the pink areas have {{lang|da|stød}}, as in Standard Danish. Dialects in the green areas have tones, as in Swedish and Norwegian. Dialects in the blue areas have neither {{lang|da|stød}} nor tones, as in Icelandic, German, and English.]]

The realization of {{lang|da|stød}} has traditionally been one of the most important isoglosses for classifying geographic dialect areas. There are four main regional variants of {{lang|da|stød}}:

• In Southeastern Jutlandic, Southernmost Funen, Southern Langeland, and {{lang|da|italic=no|Ærø}}, there is no {{lang|da|stød}} but rather a form of pitch accent.
• South of a line ({{lang|da|Stødgrænsen}} 'the {{lang|da|stød}} boundary') going through central South Jutland and crossing Southern Funen and central Langeland and north of Lolland-Falster, {{lang|da|italic=no|Møn}}, Southern Zealand, and Bornholm, there is neither {{lang|da|stød}} nor pitch accent.{{cite web |url= http://dialekt.ku.dk/dialekter/dialekttraek/stoed/ |title=Stød |date=22 April 2015 |language=da |publisher=Center for Dialect Studies, University of Copenhagen}}
• In most of Jutland and Zealand, there is {{lang|da|stød}}.
• In Zealandic traditional dialects and regional language, {{lang|da|stød}} is more frequent than in the standard language.{{sfn|Ejskjær|1990}}

In Zealand, the {{lang|da|stød}} line divides Southern Zealand, without {{lang|da|stød}}, and formerly directly under the Danish crown, from the rest of the island, formerly the property of various noble estates, with {{lang|da|stød}}.

In the dialects with pitch accent, such as the Southern Jutlandic of {{lang|da|italic=no|Als}} ({{lang|da|Synnejysk}}), {{lang|da|stød}} corresponds to a low level tone, and the non-{{lang|da|stød}} syllable in Standard Danish corresponds to a high rising tone:{{sfn|Jespersen|1906|pp=127-128}}

On Zealand, some traditional dialects have a phenomenon called short-vowel {{lang|da|stød}} ({{lang|da|kortvokalstød}}): some monosyllabic words with a short vowel and a coda consonant cluster have {{lang|da|stød}} when the definite suffix follows: {{lang|da|præst}} {{IPA|[pʁæst]}} 'priest' but {{lang|da|præsten}} {{IPA|[pʁæˀstn̩]}} 'the priest'.{{sfn|Sørensen|2011}}

In Western Jutland, a second {{lang|da|stød}}, more like a preconsonantal glottal stop, occurs in addition to the one of Standard Danish.{{sfn|Basbøll|2005|p=85}} It occurs in different environments, particularly after stressed vowels before final consonant clusters that arise through the elision of final unstressed vowels. For example, the word {{lang|da|trække}} 'to pull', which is /trække/ in Standard Danish, is [tʁæʔk] in Western Jutlandic. Also, the present tense {{lang|da|trækker}}, which is /trækker/ in Standard Danish, is [tʁæʔkə] in Western Jutlandic.{{sfn|Perridon|2009}}{{sfn|Kortlandt|2010}}

{{reflist}}

• {{cite book |last=Basbøll |first=Hans |author-link=Hans Basbøll |date=2005 |title=The Phonology of Danish |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-824268-0 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Ejskjær |first=I. |date=1990 |title=Stød and pitch accents in the Danish dialects |journal=Acta Linguistica Hafniensia |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=49–75 |doi=10.1080/03740463.1990.10411522 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Kortlandt |first=F. |date=2010 |title=Vestjysk stød again |journal=Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=29–32 |doi=10.1163/18756719-066001004 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Perridon |first= H. |date=2009 |title=How old is the vestjysk stød? |journal=Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik |volume=65 |pages=5–10 |doi= 10.1163/9789042032118_003 |s2cid= 162213417 }}
• {{cite book |last=Jespersen |first=O. |date=1906 |title=Modersmålets fonetik |language=da |publisher=Schuboth |url=https://archive.org/details/modersmletsfone00jespgoog}}
• {{cite book |last=Sørensen |first=V. |date=2011 |title=Lyd og prosodi i de klassiske danske dialekter |language=da |publisher=Peter Skautrup Centret }}

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