r/norsk • u/dwchandler • Jun 10 '18

Søndagsspørsmål #231 - Sunday Question Thread

This is a weekly post to ask any question that you may not have felt deserved its own post, or have been hesitating to ask for whatever reason. No question too small or silly!

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u/Akihiko95 Jun 12 '18

I don't know if it's possible to do this but yeah should this break some rules feel free to delete the message. I just wanted to repost this question in case someone missed it in the previous weekly thread, and it's totally possible since I posted it at the end of the last week:

I would like to know if there is a norwegian dude on this subreddit that speaks the dialect from the Northern part of the country (I'm sorry for not being more specific but i started learning norwegian only recently and i don't really know if this dialect has a specific name) that would tell me what are the major differences between his dialect and bokmål. I often speak with a couple of norwegian friends that live in the north and i noticed that their dialect differs from bokmål in a lot of ways. The first thing that comes to mind is that they usually change every "hv" sound with a "k", for example if they want to say "where are you? " instead of saying "hvor er du?" they say something like "Kor er du? ". And their love for swearing words is real. I love those guys, saying "Fitte" all the time

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u/dwchandler Jun 12 '18

There are a ton of Norwegian dialects. Like really. There can be two quite different dialects across a river or the next town down the road. It would probably help a lot if you could say what city/town/village these people are from.

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u/Akihiko95 Jun 12 '18

They live in a city called Harstad

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u/BaileyBooDog Jun 15 '18

I’m not Norwegian but my partner is and we live about 30 minutes away from Harstad. If you have any questions, and there are no North Norwegians around, I can ask my partner. :)

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u/Akihiko95 Jun 15 '18

Thanks, you are very kind. I would really appreciate your partners help. Can u ask him/her about the first differences that comes to his/her mind between bokmål and his/her dialect?

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u/BaileyBooDog Jun 28 '18 edited Jul 01 '18

Hi, sorry for the late reply on this. My partner says that in their dialect they use æ, ø, å more than bokmål. Also lots of curses (lol). And question words begin with k (kor instead of hvor, ka instead of hva, katti instead of når) like what you mentioned. Ikkje instead of ikke, heim instead of hjem and the “ei” is also pronounced differently than in bokmål (more like in English ay than iy, something like that). Æ instead of jeg, mæ instead is meg, dæ instead of deg, dokker instead of dere. And really a lot of other words. :D

I found these sites that have some words, maybe you will find is helpful.

https://www.fiskersiden.no/forum/index.php?/topic/51909-nord-norsk-ordbok/

https://nordnorsk.uit.no/malmerker/

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u/Akihiko95 Jun 30 '18

No problem, your help was very much appreciated, especially those northern norwegian dialect sites, theyre really informative and educative. Thanks a lot