{"id":873,"date":"2013-01-31T23:45:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=873"},"modified":"2013-02-01T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:24:12","slug":"danish-dialects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2013\/01\/31\/danish-dialects\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish Dialects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark is so small you can hide it from a standard-size globe with the tip of your finger. Railways and\u00a0<strong>motorveje<\/strong>\u00a0(motorways, freeways) crisscross the country, and besides Bornholm and a few other\u00a0<strong>\u00f8er<\/strong>\u00a0(islands), there are really no places where groups of people can live in isolation and become, let\u2019s say, special! \ud83d\ude42 (Sorry, Bornholmers, I couldn\u2019t resist\u2026) Yet foreigners who settle down here soon discover that there are surprisingly many\u00a0<strong>dialekter<\/strong>\u00a0in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>A century ago the dialects were so different that a person from the outskirts of Copenhagen and a person from the countryside around \u00c5lborg in Jutland would have a hard time understanding each other\u2026 Today almost everyone speaks a variety of\u00a0<strong>rigsdansk<\/strong>\u00a0[REEce-dansk] (\u201dDanish of the Realm\u201d), which is the Danish equivalent of Queen\u2019s English. The accent, however, changes a lot between regions, as does the choice of words. You can easily hear whether a person comes from Jutland or Sj\u00e6lland (Zealand). In that way it still makes sense to speak of \u201ddialects\u201d or \u201dregional dialects\u201d, even if the differences are much smaller today. Let\u2019s have a very rough look at the main \u201dregionalects\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sj\u00e6llandsk<\/strong>\u00a0(Zealandic). Because of Copenhagen, this is standard Danish to most people. Other Danes think\u00a0<strong>sj\u00e6ll\u00e6ndere<\/strong>\u00a0talk a lot and a bit fast. Almost everything is pronounced with a rising tone and plenty of\u00a0<strong>st\u00f8d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 those small coughs that make Danish a cool language for rappers. To me (from Jutland),\u00a0<strong>sj\u00e6llandsk<\/strong>\u00a0sounds more aggressive as well as more melodic (closer to Swedish) than the other dialects. I remember hearing some kids from Roskilde counting with so much\u00a0<strong>st\u00f8d<\/strong>\u00a0that it sounded like they were saying each vowel twice:\u00a0<em>e-en, to-o, tre-e<\/em>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fynsk<\/strong>\u00a0(Funic). In contrast to\u00a0<strong>sj\u00e6llandsk<\/strong>, there are hardly any\u00a0<strong>st\u00f8d<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>fynsk<\/strong>. That makes the language sound very pleasant and \u201dinnocent\u201d to people from other parts of Denmark. As the saying goes:\u00a0<strong>Fyn er fin<\/strong>. (Fyn is nice.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jysk<\/strong>\u00a0(Jutlandic). People from Copenhagen think that\u00a0<strong>jyder<\/strong>\u00a0(Jutes, people from Jutland) speak somewhat slowly and perhaps a bit\u00a0<strong>bondsk\u00a0<\/strong>(boorishly, \u201dlike a\u00a0<strong>bonde<\/strong>, peasant\u201d). There\u2019s more \u201deveryday sadness\u201d in the language, which is also felt to be more down-to-earth than\u00a0<strong>fynsk\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>sj\u00e6llandsk<\/strong>. Trustworthy characters in films and tv often speak\u00a0<strong>jysk<\/strong>. A typical saying is\u00a0<strong>Det er tr\u00e6ls<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201dThat\u2019s hard!\u201d, like when you\u2019re complaining about something or showing empathy towards someone who\u2019s having difficulties). A Copenhagener would rather say\u00a0<strong>Det er nederen<\/strong>. \u2013 There are also some special dialects in Jutland that are practically unintelligible to other Danes. The most famous is\u00a0<strong>s\u00f8nderjysk<\/strong>\u00a0(Southern Jutlandic), but let\u2019s save that for another post! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bornholmsk<\/strong>\u00a0(Bornholmic). I don\u2019t know a lot about\u00a0<strong>bornholmsk<\/strong>, besides that it sounds like a mixture of Danish and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-swedish\">Swedish<\/a>. I found this YouTube video so you could listen to it:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fr\u00e5 R\u00f8 te Hellip\u00e6r - Kurt Kofoed\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6aqtKCfZkoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark is so small you can hide it from a standard-size globe with the tip of your finger. Railways and\u00a0motorveje\u00a0(motorways, freeways) crisscross the country, and besides Bornholm and a few other\u00a0\u00f8er\u00a0(islands), there are really no places where groups of people can live in isolation and become, let\u2019s say, special! \ud83d\ude42 (Sorry, Bornholmers, I couldn\u2019t resist\u2026)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2013\/01\/31\/danish-dialects\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[269700,58,269698,269701,269703,269699],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-bornholmsk","tag-dialect","tag-fynsk","tag-jysk","tag-rigsdansk","tag-sjaellandsk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}