Morgana
Vintermagi
Yes, me as well and it's very interesting how many words are sorta simular to the German language. 
Question for Borknagar (or anyone well versed in uh?Norweigen?)
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Dionysos
Silence...
O!! I didn't know that!!! Sounds very weird once Suomi is not a "Vikingland" as Norway, Sweden and Denmark are.... They are a completly different nation..... hmmmm strange....
Mammon
Indifferent
All the scandinavian languages (swedish,norwegian,danish,icelandic), as well as English derives from German. Finnish derives from a different branch of "the latin language inheritance-tree". The bonds between Sweden and Finland is very closely bound, since Finland has been swedish territory for many years.
the reason why danish is so much more similar to norwegian is that Norway was a part of Denmark for 500 years or so, up to 1905.
btw,
@ Fjelltussas signature
the reason why danish is so much more similar to norwegian is that Norway was a part of Denmark for 500 years or so, up to 1905.
btw,
@ Fjelltussas signature
Fjelltussa
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To me it seems like norwegians understand swedish and danish better than swedes and danes understand the other two languages. I don't why, but it might have to do with norwegians beingvery used to veery different dialects withoind the country. One dialect can be more similar to swedish or danish than to another norwegian dialect. Take for instance south orwegian dialects: they are much more simillar to danish than to say the dialects in the inner and western parts of the country. I cannot say this for sure, though, because I don't know how different the swedish and the danish dialects are.
Fjelltussa
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Originally posted by Mammon
the reason why danish is so much more similar to norwegian is that Norway was a part of Denmark for 500 years or so, up to 1905.
btw,
You like my sig.? Cool, ain't it?
But dear one - shame on you!! You claim that Norway was a part of Denmark up to 1905!?!?! It was a part of Denmark from the 1380s/1390s and up until 1814! Then we were free for two or three months or so, and we were under Sweden from august or september in 1814 and up until 1905. (But then we had much more to say than under Denmark. We ruled our own country, while Sweden took care of the foreign policy.)
edit: typos.....
Mammon
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oh, you got a new signature... well.. still kewl, I guess
yeah, well.. my history-knowledge is not that good
yeah, well.. my history-knowledge is not that good
Fjelltussa
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Karldin
The Watcher
Back to that language thing. Seems to me that some people just don't want to understand the other languages, like Oslo people sometimes refuse to understand us trøndera. Don't know why, but sometimes that is how it seems.
Somber Soul
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Originally posted by Morgana
Yes, me as well and it's very interesting how many words are sorta simular to the German language.
Oh, they are. But then, other things are significantly different.
But it's always great to compare languages and to see how they're related to each other. It's good to get some native Scandinavians expressing their views on the matter at hand here! A rich source of information for an outsider (i.e. outside of Scandinavia
).I'd just like to add to Mammon's post that the mentioned languages don't derive from German but from Germanic. German and English are West Germanic languages, while all Scandinavian ones are North Germanic ones. That's the crude difference. And Finnish is closely related to Hungarian. I don't know to what extent native speakers can understand each other languages.
Mammon
Indifferent
about the signature... I mixed Fjelltussa with Karldin, sorry
somber soul: yeah yeah yeah... i just wrote the basic idea
somber soul: yeah yeah yeah... i just wrote the basic idea
Karldin
The Watcher
Fjelltussa
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I know. They (many of them) don't want to understand anything, and certainly not nynorsk!! It's really arrogant.
Ziuwarian
Ancient
Are bokmal and nynorsk THAT much different, really? Haven't tried norwegian, yet, but I suppose I'll have to learn it soon
Anyway, linguistics are no barriers, at least should not be, and certainly nothing to do with arrogance?!
Anyway, linguistics are no barriers, at least should not be, and certainly nothing to do with arrogance?!
Thorgrimm
Member
I know that there's no lyrics to Borknagar "Borknagar", but could anyone translate just titles? Thanks
Morna!
Morna!
Mammon
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Karldin
The Watcher
corrado
jo eh
@ Somber Soul
To me (speaking German), Swedish seems more close to German than the English language does, at least i can figure out some words, i think the grammar must be very similar. It often reminds me on german medieval lecture, so it must have been very close once.
To me (speaking German), Swedish seems more close to German than the English language does, at least i can figure out some words, i think the grammar must be very similar. It often reminds me on german medieval lecture, so it must have been very close once.
Mammon
Indifferent
I don't think the grammar are that alike.. at least Norwegian don't have any ..cases(you know, nominativ,akkusativ,dativ and all that), I'd think that Swedish don't have that either.
what's mean "Akkurat"? in polish this word mean "just" or "exactly". i heard in norwegian "akurat" mean that same
