Svorsk
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Svorsk(Norwegian:[ˈsvɔʂk]) orSvorska(Swedish:[ˈsvɔ̂ʂːka]) is aportmanteauofsvensk(a)'Swedish' andnorsk(a)'Norwegian' to describe a mixture of theSwedishandNorwegian languages.It could be translated asSworwegianin English.
The termsvorskis used to describe the language of someone (almost exclusively a Swedish or Norwegian person) who mixes words from his or her native tongue with the other language. The phenomenon is common, especially in light of the close business and trade ties between the two countries[1][2]and themutual intelligibilitybetween the two languages, the latter in its turn being due to the common ancestry and parallel development of both Norwegian and Swedish fromOld Norse(seeNorth Germanic languages). The term originates from the 1970s.[citation needed]
Individual Swedishloanwordsand phrases that are assimilated into a language, including Norwegian, are calledsvecisms(svesismer).[3][4]This trend has been ongoing in Norwegian since the dissolution of theDano-Norwegian Unionin 1814; however, it gained momentum substantially after thedissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905and has been an ongoing phenomenon of Norwegian linguistics, and still is. Indeed, the prominent Norwegian linguistFinn-Erik Vinjecharacterizes this influx sinceWorld War IIas a breaking wave.[5]
There's no one specific vocabulary used in Svorsk; versions range from borderline joke speech (replacing random vowels in the person's main language) to knowing and using a reasonable set of core words from the other language (such aslita,ursäkta,andkollafrom Swedish; and for examplehengsler,pils,andpotetfrom Norwegian, among countless others).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Næringsstruktur i Norge" - from the website of the Norwegian government
- ^"Sveriges förbindelser med Norge" - from the website of the Swedish government
- ^Persvold, Anja Zawadzka (2021-11-08),"svesisme",Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian Bokmål),retrieved2022-06-21
- ^"Ord i grenseland".Norwegian Language Council(in Norwegian Bokmål).Retrieved2022-06-21.
- ^«Der lå vi et folk bag, et andet berømmeligt rige» Om svesismer i unionstiden 1814–1905Archived2011-06-05 at theWayback MachinebyFinn-Erik Vinjeof theNorwegian Language Council.Page visited December 19, 2007
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