A little about where the Salten Dialect is spoken:

The Salten Dialect is spoken in the Salten region, an area around the Saltfjorden, a large fjord or fjord-complex, with a very narrow entrance. The tidal stream that flows through this narrow entrance is known as the Saltstraumen, and is one of the most powerful tidal streams in the world, owing to the amount of water contained in the Saltfjorden and the fact that the water flowing in and out, must flow through the narrow Saltstraumen Strait. To the south of the Saltfjord, the mountains slowly rise into the Saltfjellet Svartisen mountain range and glacial region. The Salten dialect is primarily spoken in the sometimes fertile rural areas around the Saltfjorden itself, although it may sometimes also refer to the Bodø and nearby coastal dialects, although this may not be an entirely correct classification of those dialects, even if they share much in common with the Salten Dialect traditionally.

Features of the Salten Dialect:

In the section below, after the three pronunciation points, there are bullet points, followed by descriptions of different aspects of the Salten Dialect. Although some of the spellings are talked about after the bullet points, I will first point out below some of the basic pronunciation features not talked about after the bullet points.

1). A hook below a consonant indicates a palatal consonant, for example ᶅ is a palatalised l, [lʲ], and ᶇ is a palatalised n, [nʲ]

2). The letter ꝁ̡  indicates a form of palatal [t], but closer in pronunciation to a softer version of the English 'ch' as in 'chip'.
3). The letter ł̣ indicates a "thick L", often written as L in Nordic dialects, e.g. Trøndersk daL'n for Bokmål dalen - the valley, and dialectal southeast Norwegian likevæL - nevertheless, for Bokmål likevel.

.The Salten Dialect has extensive palatalisation, which is also common to different degrees in many Northern, Trøndersk and Western Norwegian dialects. Examples in the Salten Dialect include: kaᶅᶅꝁ̡ - cold, Bokmål: kald, Nynorsk: kald, ꝁ̡ø̂ir - to drive, Bokmål: kjøre, bjŷᶇᶇ - begin, Bokmål: begynne, also for example bjŷᶇᶇꝁ̡ - begun, Bokmål: begynte, slêᶁᶁ - sledge, Bokmål: slegge, viᶇᶇ´ꝁ̡er - winter, but with a plual viᶇᶇ`tra, Bokmål vinter - winter, and vintrer - winters.

Apocope is visible in for example ꝁ̡ø̂ir, standard Bokmål kjøre. The circumflex over the ø is used to indicate that this word has a "special tone 2" that is connected to the apocope (the loss of the final vowel visible in many other Nordic dialects). The apocope on verbs is visible in for example the aforementioned bjŷᶇᶇ and slêᶁᶁ as well, and as can be seen all of these verbs also possess a circumflex accent written over a vowel, indicating the "special tone 2."

The apocope also applies to the definite singular neuter forms of nouns, and this also causes the vowel in the noun to have "special tone 2", for example eꝁ̡ꝁ̡  hus  or eꝁ̡ꝁ̡  hûs a house, and hûs - the house, Bokmål: et hus - a house, and huset - the house, also for example eꝁ̡ꝁ̡  jørn/jø̂rn - a corner, and jø̂rn - the corner, Bokmål: et hjørne - a corner, and hjørnet - the corner.

Apocope also occurs in the Salten Dialect, like in many other dialects from Nordland, in the definate plural forms of nouns. So for example, Bokmål steinene - the stones, and dalene - the valleys, would be stein`an and da`ł̣an in the Salten Dialect. Notice that these forms also have pitch accent 2, indicated by the letter or symbol `, as opposed to the singular definite forms, stei´'n and dał̣´n which both have pitch accent 1, written with the letter or symbol ´. These singular definite forms are steinen and dalen in Bokmål.

Some of the prepositions show obviously ancient forms, such as ijøn`no - through, Bokmål: gjennom, kreᶇᶇom - around, Bokmål omkring. Other prepositions include te or tell - to, Bokmål: til, uᶇ´ᶇer or uᶇ`ᶇo - under, Bokmål: under.
Like other traditional Norwegian dialects, the Salten Dialect has three genders. The indefinate articles are: eᶇᶇ for masculine nouns, ei for feminine nouns, and eꝁ̡ꝁ̡  for neuter nouns. In standard Bokmål these indefinate articles are written en, ei and et, in Nynorsk they are written ein, ei and eit.