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Mauritz
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Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French
Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans

 
 Message 33 of 33
25 October 2012 at 10:04pm | IP Logged 
montmorency wrote:

Interesting that the Danish noun (sprog) is neuter, while the German one (Sprache) is feminine.

A bit off-topic maybe:

The same is true for Old English (sprǣċ) and Dutch (spraak), both being feminine. This doesn't explain much, but I believe that the Scandinavian words were borrowed from Middle Low German. Maybe something happened on the way!

Edited by Mauritz on 25 October 2012 at 10:04pm



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