In 2004, Ulum dalska charged Råðdjärum, their newly formed language council, with the task of developing a new Elfdalian spelling that reconciled Steensland and Åkerberg’s orthographies. After seven months, a proposal was presented and accepted by Ulum dalska.Råðdjärum, 2005.

Script
Latin
ISO 639-2
ovd
Status
Unofficial
Debut
2012

A second edition of Lars Steensland’s Liten älvdalsk-svensk och svensk-älvdalsk ordbok followed in 2006, with a few exceptions, conforming to Råðdjärum’s orthography. A coordinated effort to bring the diverging spellings closer resulted in a new and expanded dictionary by Lars Steensland in 2010,Steensland, 2010. and a grammar by Bengt Åkerberg in 2012.Åkerberg & Nyström, 2012. A third edition of Lars Steensland’s dictionary followed in 2021.Steensland, 2021.

Literature

Råðdjärum (2005). Älvdalska: språkrådets förslag till älvdalsk stavning [Elfdalian: the language council’s proposal for Elfdalian spelling] [Orthographic proposal]. Ulum dalska. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from ulumdalska.se

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Steensland, L. ( 2010). Material till en älvdalsk ordbok: svenska-älvdalska, älvdalska-svenska [Material for an Elfdalian dictionary: Swedish–Elfdalian, Elfdalian–Swedish]. Ulum dalska.

Steensland, L. (21 May 2015). Älvdalskans stavning: historia, nuläge och framtidsperspektiv [The Elfdalian spelling: history, present, and future perspectives]. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from web.archive.org

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Steensland, L. (2021). Älvdalsk ordbok [Elfdalian dictionary]. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from dalsk.ordbok.gratis

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Åkerberg, B. & Nyström, G. (2012). Älvdalsk grammatik [Elfdalian grammar]. Ulum Dalska.

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