Note that this table does not hold for the distinct (dotted) or transitional (striped) areas. Götaland dialects are mostly used in Västergötland, Dalsland, northern Halland, northern Småland and Östergötland although they are also heard in Bohuslän and Värmland and Öland. Examples of Götaland dialect features are vowel reduction, vowel shortening in front of endings and loss of -r'' in suffixes (as in ( = horses)). In addition, connect adjacent areas, mainly Dalsland, northern Småland and Östergötland southwest. Värmland can also be counted here, although its dialects in many ways is a special case. A characteristic of Svealand dialects is the coalescence of the alveolar trill with following dental and alveolar consonants — also over word-boundaries — that transforms them into retroflex consonants that in some cases reduces the distinction between words (as for instance — , i.e. "habit" — "warn"). This feature is also found in East Norwegian, North Swedish and in some dialects of Scottish Gaelic. + → + → + → + → + → Classification The following dialect groups are sometimes classified as "Swedish" in the broadest sense (North Scandinavian): Archaic Gutnish Dalecarlian Archaic Finnish Swedish, Estonian Swedish, Swedish Archaic Norrlandic, Jamtska Dalecarlian is intermediate in some respects between East and West Scandinavian. Scanian, a dialect of East Danish, is South Scandinavian, along with Danish, East Danish, and Jutish. See also Norwegian dialects Danish dialects Scanian dialects Notes References External links More samples, from many dialects not listed in this article. (Swedish site) Dialect map with audio from the Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore.