Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Scandinavia, language trivia
Date: Feb 24, 2003 @ 20:53
Author: Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
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Of course Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are considered different languages, but internationally they are so close that they in fact are more to regard as dialects. Many dialects in other languages are so different that it is impossible for two persons speaking two different to be understood.
 
Finnish is also spoken in Norway (Finnmark county where several official signs are in Finnish ("Kvensk") language), not including all other tongues (Urdu, Sami etc.) which also have a major position.
 
Unfortunately there are no Swedish Estonians left on Dagö Is. anymore. Everybody evacuated back to Sweden at World War II. Only some place names remains after all those centuries with Swedish colonisation of the Baltic countries.
 
Jan