LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.05 (04) [E]

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From: James Campbell <james at zolid.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.04 (07) [E]

Mark Williamson writes:

> Dalecarlian is spoken in south-central rural Sweden, in the province
> (landskap) of Dalecarlia (also known as Dalarna). It is basically an
> insular North Germanic language, ie it preserves many features of Old
> Norse similar to Icelandic and Faroese that have been lost in the
> other languages of the mainland, but it is peculiar in that it is
> spoken in the middle of Sweden.
>
> For example:
> Dalecarlian: Bókiñ ir â bórðiñu.
> Swedish: Boken är på bordet. (the book is on the table)
8<
> As you can see, it looks (and sounds) more like Icelandic and Faroese
> than Swedish.

Thank you, Mark. Fascinating -- especially to someone like me who
specialises in the Scandinavian tongues professionally (as a translator). As
you say, it retains many features of Old Norse which otherwise only survive
in Faroese and Icelandic. Weird and very interesting. (More on unilang.org
if anyone's interested.)

James

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