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Future perspectives for the history of the Nordic languages.
No full textSpeculations about the future of the Scandinavian standard languages concerning the degree of standardization and in relation to the expanding use of Anglo-American for various purposes. Also the prospects of Swedish in Finland and Neo-Norwegian in Norway are discussed
Language cultivation and language planning II: Sweden
No full textAn overview of the language cultivation (ideas, implementation, organization etc.) in Sweden in the 19th and 20th centuries
The standard languages and their systems in the 20th century. IV. Swedish.
No full textPronunciation, morphology and syntax of modern Swedish
Två generationer hyfsad småländska
No full textThe author (professor of Scandinavian linguistics, *1934, living in Lund or nearby) compares his own dialect with that of his mother (house-wife, *1912, living nearly all her life 15 kilometers outside Kalmar). Interestingly, he found very few differences. The article discusses why
Lågtyska lånord. Om stad och land i svensk språkhistoria
No full textStandard Swedish has a large amount of import words from Low German. These words were adopted by the urban population, approximately 5 % of the people, in the middle ages. According to the author very little was taken over by the speakers of the genuine rural dialects. Instead it is resonable to believe that the propagation of these import word took place as an aspect of the weakening of the rural dialects and the establishment of a national spoken standard language in the 19th century
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