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| Miiyii Groupie Greenland Joined 5588 days ago 59 posts - 97 votes  | Message 65 of 169 21 June 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd also say as long there is over 1 million native speakers. :P .. But I'm kinda nervous (very little though) that Danish is the one of those three languages with the biggest chance of getting extinct, because of the "little" interest of learning it for those who are studying scandinavian languages. .. But I don't think it's so bad! - I'm Danish myself, and I haven't met any Dane who doesn't want to speak Danish as his/her first language. - And the kids are learning Danish from their parents, and not English, which first comes in the school, so.. No.. The scandinavian languages will not die. Uh! And one last thing: All the scandinavian languages looks (and sounds) very much alike, so it's kinda like one big language with different dialect, and with ca. 20. million speakers! - So why would they die? Edited by Miiyii on 21 June 2010 at 2:00pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6321 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 66 of 169 23 June 2010 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Good point Miiyii. I really love Danish; it sounds unlike any other language I've come across. How do you view the situation in Greenland? Is English particularly common as a foreign language? I do know Danish was until a recently a co-official language. Edited by ChristopherB on 23 June 2010 at 1:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miiyii Groupie Greenland Joined 5588 days ago 59 posts - 97 votes | Message 67 of 169 23 June 2010 at 2:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Umm.. English is a foreign language taught in the schools, but people in Greenland knows more Danish than they
know English (mostly) and speaks it better. As you maybe know, Danish is still the second language of Greenland, so there's around 4-5 hours more Danish classes in the schools where I live. But then again, even though the two languages are taught in school starting from 1st grade, there's many people not knowing Danish nor English, so traveling can be problematic in Greenland. :) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5613 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 68 of 169 23 June 2010 at 11:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I still can't make up my mind whether to study Swedish or Norwegian Edited by Tally on 23 June 2010 at 3:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miiyii Groupie Greenland Joined 5588 days ago 59 posts - 97 votes | Message 69 of 169 23 June 2010 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
There's a good example! o: 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6321 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 70 of 169 23 June 2010 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
I had the same problem, initially between those two and then later between Swedish and Danish (the latter because I wanted to access Greenlandic resources). I eventually opted for Swedish simply because it has the most speakers. I don't think it really matters between the two you mention, since they are at least 90% the same language. Minus a few orthographical differences. Norwegian is a bridge in a sense, since it has Danish orthography but Swedish-like tones and pronunciation. If you have little opportunity to use them, bear in mind Norwegian has the least speakers of all, while Swedish has the most. Sorry, that was probably no help. :( 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5843 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 71 of 169 14 July 2010 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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This thread got "unpinned"???
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 72 of 169 14 July 2010 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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