Gällivare dialects

Gällivare dialects (Meänkieli: Jellivaaranvarieteetti), alternately Gällivare Finnish (Swedish: Gällivarefinska, Finnish: Jällivaaransuomi) or, in more colloquial Swedish, village Finnish (byfinska), are a dialect group of Meänkieli (which also includes the Torne Valley dialects and Lannankieli), which is recognized in Sweden as an independent Finnic language for political, sociological and historical reasons, but it is sometimes considered as a group of Peräpohjola dialects of Finnish due to their close mutual intelligibility. The Gällivare dialects are spoken around Gällivare, but also in Killivaara and Nattavaara.

Features of the dialects are absence of Vowel harmony: kyla 'village' (Meänkieli and Finnish: kylä), and the passive being used for the third person plural ending: äijät poltethin (Finnish: ukot polttivat). The dialect is also heavily influenced by Swedish and many loanwords have entered the Gällivare dialects. A Gällivare dialect dictionary was made in 1992 by Birger Winsa.