You are correct. The language is Norwegian.
Many scandinavian undestand each other well. When they don't it is often
lack of will :-)
By the way, we normally only include Denmark, Norway and Sweden in
'Scandinavia'. Finland, Iceland and Faroe Islands included we then
become the Nordics.
You are very much correct about the Finns. I was guest teacher at our
Nordic Education Center in Stockholm years ago. The Finns did better in
english than 'scandinavian' so we had a debate on what language to use.
The debate was in english and so was the language used afterwards.
Birger Heede
IBM Denmark
Chris Mason wrote:
Ed
Thanks for this post.
I'm afraid you are. It's one of the Scandinavian languages. No doubt
someone will jump in with the precise attribution - perhaps even a
native speaker.
Apparently the Scandinavian languages have diverged so little[1] that it
is possible to teach a mixed class in a language which I heard described
as "Scandiwegian".
The education centre catered for all the countries of the region and so
included the Finns. However, since they use a language with a quite
different inheritance, they were - so indeed to speak - somewhat left
out in the cold!
Chris Mason
[1] An Icelandic[2] boy who was my guest over a short school holiday was
able to talk to a Norwegian man in a sailing club we visited utterly
without difficulty.
[2] Which reminds me of another little story associated with this boy -
and the fact that Iceland is a rather small country. Many years later I
attended an international course where it turned out that the Danish
representative was actually from Iceland. I mentioned my guest and his
response was "I knew his brother better."!
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