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1 ÖVDALIAN – A BRIEF BACKGROUND 1. Research history and standardization Övdalian is spoken in the northern parts of Dalecarlia, in the parish of Älvdalen (Övdaln), by about 3000 speakers (the parish has 5200 inhabitants, roughly, but estimates of the number of speakers vary; see http://www.alvdalen.se/alvdalska2005.htm). There are 21 villages in the parish, with minor dialectal differences, mainly
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