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Traditionally, Danish and German were the two official languages of Denmark–Norway; laws and other official instruments for use in Denmark and Norway were written in Danish, and local administrators spoke Danish or Norwegian. German was the administrative language of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig.
English has around 11–12 vowels in most dialects (not counting diphthongs), Standard Swedish has 17 pure vowels (monophthongs), [43] standard German and Dutch 14, and Danish at least 11. [44] The Amstetten dialect of Bavarian German has 13 distinctions among long vowels alone, one of the largest such inventories in the world.
North Germanic vikings might have been engaged in naval raids in Western Europe as early as the 6th century. Between 512 and 520, Frankish annals and the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf claim that a certain Hygelac or Hugleik, King of the Geats, made a raid in the Rhineland somewhere between 512 and 520. Carrying off great booty, Hygelac was allegedly ...
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. There are different ways to define the lexical similarity and the results vary accordingly.
Also, note the Danish pronunciation of initial t as [tsĘ°], similar to the High German consonant shift wherein German changed t to z/tz (cf. Danish tid, German Zeit). Meanwhile, syllable-final b , v , d , and g may be compared to English syllables that end in y , w , and th (English "say" versus Danish sige , "law" versus lov , "wrath" versus ...
In connection with the two world wars, several German children of war came to Sweden. Between the late 1940s and early 1990s, many East German refugees also came to Sweden. On 31 December 2014, there were 49,359 people in Sweden who were born in Germany, of whom 23,195 were men (47.0%) and 26,164 women (53.0%).
Swedish belongs to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic sub-family of the Indo-European languages.As such, it is mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish.Because most of the loanwords present in Swedish come from English and German (originally Middle Low German, closely related to Dutch), and also because of similarities in grammar, native speakers of Germanic languages usually ...
The Swedish press adopted a distanced and critical attitude towards National Socialism which caused disgruntlements between the German-Swedish relations. While Germany was influenced by National Socialism, Sweden was a country with a social democratic government.