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Den 2016-03-01 09:30, skrev "Mats Blakstad" <<a href="mats.gbproject@gmail.com">mats.gbproject@gmail.com</a>>:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">For those of you that did not have the energy to read all of my long message yesterday, here's the final part (note: long lines!). For more details, see my message from yesterday.<BR>
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Insular Nordic (Old North Nordic) |||| Scandinavian<BR>
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Icelandic (C) || Faroese ||| Älvdalian |||| Swedish (D) || Nynorska || Bokmål | Danish (written) ||| Danish (spoken)<BR>
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[Except for Älvdalian, these have language codes;<BR>
SIDE ISSUE:<BR>
<B>for Danish: 'da'/'dan' and 'jut' for the Jutish dialect/language;<BR>
though there is no "macro-language" code. Strangely 'jut'<BR>
is marked as "historical" in ISO 639 reg., but (correctly)<BR>
as "vigorous" in Ethnologue. So it is not clear if 'da'<BR>
covers 'jut' (though Ethnologue implies so). Though<BR>
I guess 'da' does cover Bornholmian (apprx. modernised<BR>
Old Scanian, "east Danish") as Ethnologue implies.</B>]<BR>
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(C) Revitalised and "modernised" Old (West) Norse.<BR>
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(D) Including (e.g.) modern Scanian (NOT(!!!) "east Danish") and<BR>
modern Dalecarlian and modern Gutnish. From a historic perspective<BR>
one also does the additional divisions into "New Swedish"<BR>
(apprx. 1600-1900) and "Now Swedish" ("nusvenska", modern<BR>
Swedish) (1900-now). 'sv' should apply only to "Now Swedish".<BR>
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/Kent K<BR>
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