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Direct linkGooskens, Charlotte – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
The three mainland Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian) are so closely related that the speakers mostly communicate in their own languages (semicommunication). Even though the three West Germanic languages Dutch, Frisian and Afrikaans are also closely related, semicommunication is not usual between these languages. In the present…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Linguistics, Norwegian, Swedish
Peer reviewedAikio, Marjut – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Language use among linguistic minorities of the Northern Calotte (areas of Norway, Sweden, and Finland that lie above the Arctic Circle) is reviewed from the perspective of history and ecology of language. Two case studies examining language shift in these areas, where Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Sami are spoken, are also considered.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Size, Descriptive Linguistics, Family History
