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Other Nordic Languages

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  • 15-05-2005 3:01am
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    Kevin_rc_ie
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    The langauge of the Faroe Islands? Faroese...it's quite similar to Danish I beleive. Or is it Icelandic it's similar too.

    Sammi? i think this is the language spoken by the native inuit people who live in lapland. I don't think it's similar to either Finnish or Swedish.

    Does anyone have anything else to share about these langauges or other Nordic langauges?


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    naitkris
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    Kevin_rc_ie wrote:
    The langauge of the Faroe Islands? Faroese...it's quite similar to Danish I beleive. Or is it Icelandic it's similar too.

    don't know anything about the language in the Faroe Islands.
    Kevin_rc_ie wrote:
    Sammi? i think this is the language spoken by the native inuit people who live in lapland. I don't think it's similar to either Finnish or Swedish.

    yes, Sammi is the language spoken by the Sammi people in Lappland (Sweden + Finland) as well as in Norway and a bit of Russia also. i don't think its similar to Swedish anyway, not sure about Finnish however.


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    deman
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    It's nothing like Finnish either.


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    XT_Dweezil
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    A swede wouldn´t understand sammi, it completely different to swedish.


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    arthur_dent
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    Faroese language descends from old Norse language, somewhat similar to icelandic but not identical. Norwegians emigrants ( fleeing Norway because of Harald I ) settled down there. The island was under norwegian control until 1380 , when Norway and Denmark formed a union with a double monarchy.

    The Faroese language evolved between the 9th and the 15th century, it suffered a bit of a blow in 1538 as it was banned by the Danes but regained popularity from 1854 as Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb published a modern standard for modern Faroese language - based on Old Norse language.

    Faroese replaced Danish as the official school language, 1938 as church language, and 1948 as national language.

    Sami language is fairly specialised - it's nothing like norwegian, swedish, finnish or russian at all. It also got up to 10 various dialects according to the location.

    In Norway, Sweden and Finland the Sami language has been acknowledged as a cultural heritage and the respective governments have recognised the Sami peoples right to speak/be informed in and write their native language.

    In Norway there are regular Sami-spoken news broadcasts on radio. Always was a bit fascinated by them as they ( to me ) sounded like totally gibberish.

    More info on www.wikipedia.com for those who are interested.


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