In Scandinavian country banter, Denmark usually gets the short end of the stick by having the language everyone would make fun of. Several comedy videos have shown how garbled the Danish language sounds to Norwegian and Swedish speakers, and to much more hilarious effect, even fellow Danish speakers. If one thinks this cannot appear any … Continue reading What makes the Danish language so… incomprehensible?
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So, how did Swedish (and Norwegian) gain word accents?
If you hear spoken Swedish and Norwegian, you would find that these languages tend to sound considerably more melodic compared to many of their Germanic counterparts. This difference is predominantly attributed to their 'pitch-accent' feature, where certain stressed syllables tend to come with some form of tone, or more rather, accent. To recap, in Swedish, … Continue reading So, how did Swedish (and Norwegian) gain word accents?
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