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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
- Subject: Re: Closeness of the Nordic Languages
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Dec28102349@lludd.sics.se>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 09:23:49 GMT
- References: <1hl344INN9s1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- Lines: 19
- In-Reply-To: cb926@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 27 Dec 92 20:19:16 GMT
-
- In article <1hl344INN9s1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb926@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- (Edmund Joseph Ryan) writes:
-
- >Are Norweigan, Danish, and Swedish similar to the extent that a
- >speaker of one could get by with the other two?
-
- Reading Norwegian, Danish, Swedish is pretty easy if you know any of the
- languages.
- Swedes usually have no trouble understanding spoken Norwegian (weird
- dialects apart, of course), but most Swedes need some practice to
- understand spoken Danish easily.
-
- >I read this is in a few books on the history of the English
- >language. I already know German. Does that help?
-
- German helps in so far as lots of words in the Scandinavian languages
- have either been borrowed from German or share a common origin with
- German words, and there are also similarities in grammar and
- constructions.
-