{"id":585,"date":"2010-09-28T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T08:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=585"},"modified":"2010-09-28T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T08:20:42","slug":"northern-norwegian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/northern-norwegian\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Norwegian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I learned bokm\u00e5l<\/strong> in college and lived in Oslo for 8 months, I came out of it all speaking nordnorsk<\/strong> (northern Norwegian) and I constantly have to explain why. \u00a0My best friend from college is half norsk<\/strong>, half amerikansk-norsk far og amerikansk mor. <\/strong>His father comes from a small bygd <\/strong>(a country settlement, smaller than a city, bigger than a village) a couple hours south of Troms\u00f8. \u00a0The two of us studied in Oslo together with another one of our very good friends. \u00a0He and I decided to speak only norsk <\/strong>when it was just the two of us and would speak engelsk <\/strong>around the other international students who couldn\u00b4t speak norsk<\/strong>, or were very limited in their vocabulary, etc. \u00a0So, I guess I just kind of naturally adopted the nordnorsk<\/strong> dialect (one of them, to be more correct). \u00a0I must say though, that I adopted it med vilje<\/strong> (with will, intentionally) as I find it easier to speak and much more pleasant to the ear.<\/p>\n

I will share with you some of the differences between bokm\u00e5l<\/strong> and nordnors<\/strong>k. \u00a0\u00a0Nordnorsk<\/strong> is one of the 5 main dialects in Norway; that being said, there are MANY different nordnorsk dialekter<\/strong>. \u00a0I still have no idea why, but recently I was told that I sounded like I spoke a particular dialekt<\/strong> from a bygd<\/strong> I had\u00a0never even heard of. \u00a0Another time someone actually guessed <\/strong>of which dialekt<\/strong> I spoke (where it comes from) because of the bred r<\/strong> (literally wide \u00b4r\u00b4) they heard. \u00a0I find this fascinating.<\/p>\n

Some of the main distinctions that are found in nordnorsk<\/strong> are pronouns and question words. \u00a0While in bokm\u00e5l, one says jeg<\/strong> (I), hun<\/strong> (her), hans<\/strong> (his), dere <\/strong>(their), deres<\/strong>(theirs possessive), I say eg, ho, hannes, d\u00e5kker, demmes. <\/strong>In bokm\u00e5l jeg<\/strong> is pronounced phonetically like my <\/em>while in nordnorsk eg<\/strong> is pronounced similar to ag <\/em>as in agriculture. \u00a0The word for you<\/em> in bokm\u00e5l<\/strong> and the\u00a0nordnorsk<\/strong> I speak is the same in written form, but like eg, deg <\/strong>is pronounced like ag <\/em>but with a d.<\/p>\n

In bokm\u00e5l<\/strong> the question words are hva<\/strong> (what), hvem <\/strong>(who), n\u00e5r<\/strong> (when), hvor<\/strong> (where), hvordan<\/strong> (how), hvilken <\/strong>(which) and in nordnorsk<\/strong> they are ka, kem, katti, kor, korsan, kordan. <\/strong>The word for not <\/em>is also different- bokm\u00e5l<\/strong> is ikke<\/strong> and the nordnorsk<\/strong> I speak is is ikkje<\/strong> pronounced similar phonetically to isha<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The biggest difference lies in intonation or tonefall<\/strong>. \u00a0While bokm\u00e5l is very much song-like, nordnorsk<\/strong> is more avlsappet<\/strong> (relaxed) and has a milder tonefall, <\/strong>which is why I find it much more pleasant both to speak and listen to-no offense to anyone that speaks bokm\u00e5l<\/strong>-just a personal preference! \u00a0If you\u00b4d like to see the many numerous different forms of nordnorsk<\/strong> and other dialekter<\/strong>, there are many websites you can go to, but good old Wikipedia has some good tables to look at: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_dialects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I learned bokm\u00e5l in college and lived in Oslo for 8 months, I came out of it all speaking nordnorsk (northern Norwegian) and I constantly have to explain why. \u00a0My best friend from college is half norsk, half amerikansk-norsk far og amerikansk mor. His father comes from a small bygd (a country settlement, smaller…<\/p>\n

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