page_title: Scanian dialect
hierarchical_section_title: Scanian dialect
context_page_description: Scanian is a Scandinavian language spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden. Older Scanian formed part of the old Scandinavian dialect continuum and are by most historical linguists considered to be an East Danish dialect group, but 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 a South Swedish dialect group in Swedish dialect research. However, 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.
  Most present-day speakers of "Scanian" speak the Scanian dialect of Swedish, not the old language, which is severely endangered.
context_section_description: Scanian (Swedish: skånska [ˈskɔ̂nːska] (listen), Danish: skånsk) is a Scandinavian language spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden. Older Scanian formed part of the old Scandinavian dialect continuum and are by most historical linguists considered to be an East Danish dialect group, but 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 a South Swedish dialect group in Swedish dialect research. However, 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.
  Most present-day speakers of "Scanian" speak the Scanian dialect of Swedish, not the old language, which is severely endangered.
caption: Skåne in southern Sweden