Dalecarlian (Swedish: dalmål) is a group of North Germanic varieties spoken in Dalarna County, Sweden.

Some Dalecarlian varieties can be regarded as part of the Swedish dialect group in Gästrikland, Uppland, and northern and eastern Västmanland.

Others represent a variety characteristic of a midpoint between West and East Scandinavian languages, significantly divergent from Standard Swedish.

[7] In everyday speech, many also refer to Dalarna regional variants of Standard Swedish as part of the Dalecarlian dialect.

Linguistically speaking, however, they are more accurately described as a lexically and morphologically "national" Swedish with characteristic Dalarna intonation and prosody.

Varieties of Dalecarlian are generally classified geographically as follows:[8] Floda and Mockfjärd dialects are sometimes considered a separate group, but are typically listed as subdialects.

In Dalecarlian proper, north of Gagnef, the consonant clusters nn, rt and rd are often preserved without assimilation.

Similarly, Dalecarlian supine form biti ("bitten") has lost the -t suffix that is still present in Swedish bitit.

[12] Characteristic for the phonology of Lower and Upper Dalarna dialects especially, with the exception of Dalecarlian proper, is the use of open and final a, which is used in a completely different way than in Standard Swedish.

h is omitted, for example, Dalecarlian and, Swedish and English hand (in the Älvdals-, Orsa- and Mora dialects, as well as in Rättvik and parts of Leksand).