#norwegian pronounciation

[hole34]

out of curiosity can yall reblog how you would instinctively pronounce the name of someone called "Signe"

no norwegians allowed 🙅‍♀️ i'm curious to see if my immigrant family has really unknown names in English or just the place we settled in is full of idiots lol

[pose1dson]

i should probably make an addition to my carrd or pinned post that my name is pronounced like kah-yah.

[bogkeep]

DOES THIS HELP

(it's an excerpt from a horribly obnoxious song i deeply dislike but it was the best audio aid i could find at the moment)

if a genie granted me three wishes one of them would be to make everyone understand that the letters Æ, Ø and Å are like, separate letters with their own specific pronounciation and not just an A with a halo on top to be cute...

(for reference:

Å - pronounced like the A in Fall

Ø - pronounced like the O in Word

Æ - pronounced like the A in Mad)

[hringum]

ancient Germanic words starting with HW-

Last time I talked about words starting in HR, HN, and HL simplifying into just R, N and L in germanic languages. But now it will be a bit different, not only Icelandic is the language that keeps the archaic hw- consonants (either in spelling or pronounciation), but other languages like English, Danish, Norwegian do it too.

Words starting in wh- in modern english used to be hw- but were later rearranged to wh- to match the other consonants clusters like th-, sh-, ch-. 

ancient word; hwaz (what) and other words starting in wh-; where, when, which, why

🇮🇸 hvað, 🇫🇴 hvat

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 what ← hwæt from Old English

🇩🇪 was, 🇳🇱 wat 

🇸🇪 vad, 🇩🇰 hvad, 🇳🇴 hva, kva

ancient word; hwalaz

🇮🇸 🇫🇴 hvalur

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 whale ← hwæl from Old English

🇩🇪 Wal, 🇳🇱 wal

🇸🇪 val, 🇩🇰 hval, 🇳🇴 hval, kval

ancient word; hwītaz (white) 

🇮🇸 🇫🇴 hvítur

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 white ← hwīt from Old English

🇩🇪 weiß, 🇳🇱 wit

🇸🇪 vit, 🇩🇰 hvid, 🇳🇴 hvit, kvit

ancient word; hwaitijaz (wheat) which comes from hwītaz (white) because the old milled grains were white

🇮🇸 🇫🇴 hveiti

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 wheat ← hwǣte from Old English

🇩🇪 Weizen, 🇳🇱 weit

🇸🇪 vete, 🇩🇰  hvede, 🇳🇴 hvete, kveite

ancient word; hwelpaz (a puppy)

🇮🇸 hvolpur, 🇫🇴 hvølpur 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 whelp ← hwelp from Old English

🇩🇪 Welpe, Welp, 🇳🇱 welp

🇸🇪 valp, 🇩🇰 hvalp, 🇳🇴 hvalp, kvelp, valp

ancient words; hwistlōną, hwisprōną, hwisplōną, hwīskrōną

🇮🇸 hvísla, hvískra 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 whisper, whistle ← hwisprian, hwistlian from Old English

🇩🇪 wispern, 🇳🇱 

🇸🇪 vissla, viska, 🇩🇰 hviske, 🇳🇴 hviske, kviskre

[spokelseskladden]

Another thing i discovered while doing some research on norse pronunciation, is that the english way of saying Thor is closer to norse than the norwegian pronounciation. which is tragic btw, I'll never recover from this

[rai-knightshade]

my tags about english speakers saying takk is light hearted, no worries, i do realise i came off as judgy! it is primarily the vocal sound, but the kk sound is normally good!

and again, learning norwegian isn't easy so i get it (i am fistfighting with german, i get it so much)

No I didn't at all read it as judgy (though autocorrect just read that as Judy, which is hilarious), I was simply Commiserating™ over pronounciation being weird 😅 glad to know we're getting the kk sound right tho!

[zrspace]

11 days of Duolingo, 3 days of Mjølnir Norwegian, 2 days of 10 minutes of Norwegian a Day, and I’m starting to get a hang of the pronounciation of Norwegian words.

Sometimes I feel guilty about learning Norwegian and neglecting my French language… Maybe I shall continue with my French after I am sorta good at Norwegian

[zeroaddzero]

i'm finnish so watching steve's character do all kinds of northern european stuff is thoroughly enjoyable for me too, steve on skis is probably my favorite bit of the show so far.

(i'm also positively surprised by how well i understand norwegian based on my relatively poor swedish skills so now i'm curious about how well norwegian and swedish speakers understand each other's languages)

Haha! Damn I should get around to watching it.

(Well all the Scandinavian languages are mutually intelligible, but Swedes and Norwegians understand each other verbally very well because the pronounciation is pretty similar. Danish and Norwegian grammar has more in common than Swedish but since Danish is pronounced very differently us Norwegians and Swedes have to work a bit harder to understand it. But once you get it down it's easy!)

[punalippulaiva]

This started bothering me. If he is Scandinavian, how do your pronounce his name? Clearly the "spahk" in most Trek is wrong, but where in Scandinavia is he from and thus what is the correct pronounciation? If he's Swedish, the "o" should be the semi-long almost-u Swedish has, with the name thus pronounced similarly to the English word "spook."

But what about Danish and Norwegian? Not to mention Icelandic and Faroese? How would his name be pronounced in those languages? And how do we decide which is the correct form?

Can't believe Star Trek named an alien "Spock" that's literally just a Scandinavian surname lol scan the surface of the planet, Mister Jørgensen

[trying-to-learn-here]

Norwegian 

Pronunciation Notes

Hi guys! Recently I watched a video about the pronunciation of Norwegian letters that was very helpful and I took some notes so here they are! this will be divided into the sections presented in the video :)

Here is the youtube video

basics:

there are 20 consonants 

there are 9 vowels: a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø, å

stress of a word is usually on the first syllable

rarely used letters

mostly used in loan words

q pronounced like k or kv

w pronounced like v

x pronounced like s or ks

z pronounced like s

silent letters

d

ld: kald -> kal

nd: hånd -> hån

rd: bord -> bor

silent at end of word after vowel; med -> me

g

gj: gjøre -> jøre

ig: hyggelig -> hyggeli

h

h and a consonant 

hjeple -> jelpe

hvor -> vor

t

after definite singular*

bordet -> borde

*I am not quite sure what a definite singular is, if you know feel free to share

when is o pronounced like å?

o is o when it’s sound is long, ex. oo sound

before 0 or 1 consonant

ex. mor, to

o is å when it’s sound is short, ex. o sound

before 2 or more consonants

ex. kommer, norge

before g or v

ex. tog, sov

that is all I have for today! I hope this helps someone as it helped me! if you would like further clarification or think something could be worded better go ahead and let me know!

remember to spread positivity and love :)

April 2, 2021

[bogkeep]

ok this is 100% an inconsequencial pet peeve this is not an indicator of the downfall of civilization. i could avoid a lot of annoyance by not listening to podcasts or essays that discuss the movie midsommar. and i will never judge anyone for saying swedish words wrong. i live in sweden and don't even Try. it would be largely hypocritical of me to demand perfect swedish pronounciation of people who do not speak the language.

but oh my GOD every time i hear people pronounce midsommar like midsomaaaahr i lose it a little. maybe i missed a memo. maybe it's a quirk of the swedish language i've been unaware of. maybe they pronounce it that way in the movie? i am never going to watch it. maybe im wrong. maybe it is pronounced that way. i thought it's pronounced almost exactly as the word midsummer in english with a slight difference in the vowels. because the swedish language is fairly similar to english in many ways. i don't think you need to drag the A out. it's a short A. i don't think swedish grammar is so different from norwegian grammar that it would be dragged out. am i losing my mind?

[captain-mozzarella]

I think it's funny that I can speak English with a norwegian accent, Norwegian with an English accent. But I cannot speak English with an Italian accent, instead I can speak Italian with an American accent.

[thesinglesock]

idk it's just as a sort of half baked linguist and lifelong Language Nerd I have opinions about this. I have nothing but respect for the folks translating and dubbing cartoons into Norwegian, I get that it's a tiny field, we don't have a big dubbing industry like some other countries have, and most folks stop watching dubs the moment they can keep up with subtitles. But I'm a firm believer that kids should get to have good things too, and also I like norwegian, and sometimes I just want to watch my little cartoon guys speak the language I hear and use in my everyday life. and in my everyday life I get to hear all the interesting, creative and diverse ways people speak norwegian. like, I love just sitting on public transport and hearing how much variation there is to this language, from dialects to accents and slang and personal twists on phrases and pronounciations. So it feels so weird when I turn on the TV and 99% of the people there speak exactly the same way. the same pronounciation of every word. the same vocabulary. no variation at all. it feels very uncanny valley. I can't get behind it. I wish more people would get into dubbing so we could have more variation

2 minutes into the norwegian dub of atsv, really wasn't expecting Gwen's delivery of the monologue to hit harder than the original english version, she sounds so close to crying I legit almost teared up myself. also one of her bandmates got a cool northern dialect so right off the bat my expectations have been exceeded.

[treecakes]

me learning german was essentially just me going “wow! this makes sense!” like the language is way more specific than english ever is purely because of the noun cases but like. once you know your grammatical genders then you’re set.

[c4tto626]

ok i hate that english is such an easy language to learn comparatively now i’m spoiled and trying to learn polish and norwegian is just a chore

[some-weirdo-person]

I’M TELLING YOU NOW THAT THE TORDS TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THE STUPIDEST SHIT NOW THAT NO ONE IS FOCUSING ON THEM, LIKE,, “JEG ER SITRONEN” AND “KNULLE DERE EDDERKOPPER, VENNER?”