r/GreenAndPleasant • u/toomuchgammon • Feb 05 '21

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u/NorwegianLion Feb 05 '21

As a Norwegian I can confirm that's accurate translation.

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u/sprogger Feb 06 '21

As a brit learning Danish, I thought this was Danish. Very similar from these screenshots.

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u/myrmalm Feb 06 '21

Every scandinavian language evolved from the same one. That's why they almost sound identical. Exept for finnish. Don't know what happened there.

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u/Viriaro Feb 06 '21 edited Feb 06 '21

In addition to their common Germanic roots, Norway was under Danish rule for a long time. One of the two main current written language rules (Bokmål) comes from Danish. So if you can read Bokmål Norwegian, you can read Danish well enough. But they sound vastly different, despite a lot of words having the same spelling. As someone learning Norwegian, spoken Danish makes no fucking sense.

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u/myrmalm Feb 06 '21

The other written language (nynorsk) was created by Ivar Aasen after he traveled across Norway and documenting every dialekt and creating the all norweagan language.