Why hasn't there been any attempt at constructing a common Nordic language? They are already mostly mutually intelligible, and most words in one language exist as archaic ones in the others.
For example, the Swedish word for window is "fönster", while the Danish and Norwegian words are "vindue" and "vindu", respectively. However, an archaic Swedish word for window is "vindöga", lit. wind-eye.
There already exists such a project for the Slavic languages, Interslavic. en.wikipedia.org
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Kayden Diaz
You should all start speaking estonian imho
Asher Ross
Estonian?
John Sanchez
>They are already mostly mutually intelligible
not really danish is totally alien
t. non-native speaker
Jace Garcia
The vocabulary and syntax is perfectly intelligible, it's just that they pronounce consonants as if they're vowels.
Ryan Hughes
>fönster
Fönäri
Alexander Parker
You already speak Russian tho. Why bother?
Brandon Evans
dialects here are already a mess, no way a unified scandi language will work out
Lincoln Ward
t. Osloborger
Kayden Anderson
>mostly
Gavin Gray
>not really danish is totally alien
Jaxon Myers
And the Slavic languages don't have dialects?
Caleb Lopez
because it's pointless, you'd have to have governments deciding to teach it at schools and that requires people to care enough to make them want to.
plus there's no standardisation within countries, for example I have norwegian friends who find it easier to understand swedish than other dialects of norwegian!
look at interslavic, there's like what, a couple hundred speakers of it? waste of time mate
Hunter Campbell
all true
Benjamin Hughes
>"Ei vittu ruotsalaiset on homoja"
Does this sound familiar?
Jonathan Myers
>I have norwegian friends who find it easier to understand swedish than other dialects of norwegian!
A lot of people in eastern Norway are basically Swedes that live in Norway and speak Danish.
Jaxson Morales
Common Scandi language would probably be easier.
Eyyy, fittsvenskar är homos
Gabriel Taylor
t. b*rgenser
Leo Hughes
their theory was that it was due to them growing up watching swedish tv
bergen is lovely
Alexander Reyes
why? we hate each other so there's no point, I'm fine with speaking a language that sw*doids and n*rdoids can't understand.
Andrew Anderson
I WANT TO LEARN SWEDISH
BUT ITS PROBABLY A WASTE OF TIME
OH GOD WHY WHY WHY
Jose Lopez
Don't learn our language.
Easton Miller
Don’t Scandis all speak pretty fluent English anyway? Why do you need a universal Nordic language?
Juan Lewis
Old people speak Russian as a second language, the rest speak English
Jayden Gutierrez
yea.. go kill yourself
Noah Peterson
Why?
Luis King
LORD NAZI GO AWAY, STAY IN MEXICO
Xavier Bennett
Learning something is never a waste of time as long as you enjoy it. I'm learning Chinese right now, Chinese characters have such rich meanings and are so aesthetically pleasing, it all makes me very happy.
Just go for it.
Lucas Rivera
Why do you want to learn Swedish?
Alexander Morales
I just do. Take insterest in Scandinavia.
Evan Kelly
Would happily speak a mix of Swedish and Norwegian. Norwegian to get rid of certain weird sounds in the Swedish language. The other languages are weird, so leave them.
Brayden Baker
>t. has never been near a scandinavic language in his life
They're already mutually intelligible. If such a language would exist it would be profitable to make TV productions, literature, news, etc in it, since you would reach a wider audience. You wouldn't need to force anyone to "learn" it since it'd already be mutually intelligible. There already is a sort of "creole" in some places, this would just be another step in formalizing it.
Interslavic has people using it on Sup Forums voluntarily, and the Slavic countries are not as culturally close as the Nordic ones.
Same thing. You wouldn't integrate Icelandic and Faroese, but you would integrate Danish which is taught in schools there.
For producing native domestic content, and to further Nordic integration.
Charles Watson
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rate fenno-swedish
Robert Williams
The Danish speak as if they have hot potatoes in their mouths.
Dylan Baker
Denne
Gabriel Bell
Oslo Norwegian is the one true Norwegian. Troms follows afterwards. The rest are just poor imitations.
Logan Brown
So he can infiltrate as a spy. Never trust a Russian.
Lincoln Russell
>Take insterest in Scandinavia
n-nothing to see h-here
Liam King
I want to learn Russian and Cyrillic
Jaxson Jenkins
You'll learn cyrillic in a day or two, it's EZ.
Pic is a pretty good resource.
Lucas Fisher
thanks ill check it out
found pic related a long time ago
dont know if its real or bs can u confirm?
Carson Perry
all those sh-sounds are hard for anyone who doesn't speak any slavic
t. took 3 years russian at high school still can't pronounce correctly
Austin Turner
minä uimasa ruotiläisesä uimahallsisa :D
Nathaniel Murphy
Seems reasonable.
You should probably go to youtube for Ж/Ш/Щ.
>tfw still can't hear the difference between Ш/Щ
Zachary Ortiz
>Oslo Norwegian is the one true Norwegian
No it's Bergen that is pure. Oslo got too much in common with swedish and danish
Juan Cook
jag heter homo peter :DDDDDDD
Jeremiah Miller
>Oslo
too much in common with danish and swedish
>Kristiansand - Stavanger
too much in common with danish
>northern Norway
too much in common with finnish
>Trondheim
no one understand what they are saying
>Bergen
pure norwegian form
Brody Martinez
I think finnish should be made the universal language of nordic countries
John Rogers
>guttural /r/
Oliver Diaz
So which one of these do you have the easiest time understanding?
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Logan Ross
>implying sc*nians are swedes
Andrew Brooks
Luis Peterson
That's Danish.
Connor Howard
Ryssvänner är inte välkomna.
Logan Gomez
This altough I understand written Danish to some degree. I strugle to make coherent sentence in Swedish tough, they teach us different Swedish than common folk speak.
This and kids in my town being ultranationalist did not help my Swedish studies a lot.
I`m down with this.
Sorry if answering to old bread but I`m drunk
Liam Robinson
We should claim it Lingua franca.
We can sell it to confused swj`s being genderles and Nazis being oldest one and macigal one.
Jackson Jenkins
or you could stop speaking weird versions of danish and start speaking proper danish
Camden Johnson
Tyler Martin
This
Oliver Lewis
>Why hasn't there been any attempt at constructing a common Nordic language?
Because it's already been made.
Feel free to swear fealty to us and begin the Icelandic takeover of Scandinavia when you're ready.
Mason Nelson
Bohuslän because thats the closest one
Cameron Wood
>There already exists such a project for the Slavic languages, Interslavic. en.wikipedia.org
And heres one for germanic languages en.wikipedia.org
Problem solved
Ryan Gomez
Gotta say after my last trip to Denmark I can 100% relate to this video
Justin Reed
Estonian is literally Finnish though
Nicholas Evans
no it's not, I can't understand it.
Michael Phillips
>dialects here are already a mess
This is sorta true. Dialects were the stupidest shit involved when I studied Norwegian. Although this is really more of a difference in mentality, rather than linguistics. The dialects in Norway aren't much ore varied and whatever than in other countries, you're just being enabled by some really stupid legislation. Introduce an official language and it wouldn't take long for people to stop it with the more silly parts of speaking they've got going on.
Really norwgian people seem to just have some weird fixation around speaking with stupid affectations and seeing if they can get away with it.
Elijah Jones
I will take over your anus.
Samuel Nguyen
I spent a few months studying Icelandic this year. Not sure if it was worth it though. The society seems far too American and politically centrist.
Michael Campbell
I like that
Owen Ortiz
>tfw still can't hear the difference between Ш/Щ
one is just sh sound
other is sh and ch mixed
Although, I just realized that recently, till that I tried to pronounce it in a retarded Latvian way of mixing sh and ty, choked myself in multiple occasions.
Noah Reed
Apparantly Finland-Swedes tend to like nynorsk. The ones with regional dialects like in österbotten anyway. Some say it fits their speech better than standard Swedish.
Ryan Scott
Are you Russian?
Mason Reed
Jonathan Lewis
Honestly couldn't we just go for Norwegian(Bokmål, not nynorsk)? It's mutually intelligible to everyone and it's the nicer sounding language.
Camden Myers
>germanic languages
But for the nordic ones only? This one has a learning curve.
You could probably do better than that if you're explicitly constructing it to be mutually intelligible.
Cooper Smith
>But for the nordic ones only?
Then why the fuck did you compare it with a panslavic one? Poles and Russians are not closer than Swedes and Germans
Thomas Ramirez
The panslavic examples all seem pretty close to me, but I don't speak enough Russian or Polish to confirm.
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lists Swedish/Danish as partially mutually intelligible and Polish/Ukrainian as partially mutually intelligible. On the other hand, this map lists them as differently distant. Could it have to do with the Cyrillic writing?