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/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