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Danish Language or Da-ih Langa?
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map	Message 17 of 18 15 May 2014 at 8:54pm \| IP Logged
	In Norwegian the "å" has apparently won the battle. In Danish ´'og' has almost won in the spoken language, but the battle is still raging in the written language, with "og" as the more formal and conservative variant. Actually the situation with a movement verb plus something that can be done is likely to induce a sense of purpose. It should be pointed out that there is a very common, but not very polite formular with imperatives which basically means "mind your own business": "Rend og hop". PS I really enjoyed 1e4e6's description of certain features of Danish pronunciation. 1 person has voted this message useful
Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4669 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali	Message 18 of 18 16 May 2014 at 1:58am \| IP Logged
	The quirkiest things about Danish pronunciation (rarely or never mentioned): a) lispy/hissy s [ ṣ ], which sounds more like Northern Spanish S than S in most languages of the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7MdnmI0o-0 b) uvular consonant [ʁ] is weak, being realized as [ɣ ] or [w] and many times inaudible/dropped, and is not pronounced as clear as in Hanover German, Parisian French, Southwestern/Bergen Norwegian or Southern Swedish: http://youtu.be/dTVthcO4YcM?t=35s Edited by Medulin on 16 May 2014 at 2:02am 3 persons have voted this message useful

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