Scots Norse: Difference between revisions
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Having been spoken throughout Suðreyjar, Scots Norse had a dialect within the Isle of Mann (Scots Norse ''"monø̀jr"'' /mɒ.ˈnei̯θ͇/). Little is known about Manx Norse (''monø̀sk''), as it is very poorly recorded, the most extensive description being a short document from around 1500AD that contains a list of about 150 words, with a very poor description of the pronunciations. Though from this description we can gather that Manx Norse still had the dental fricatives that had been lost in other dialects (merging with t/d), we get this from the description "... these [th and dh] are like that of the Saxons' beloved þ or the Scots' [Gaels'] sounds of the same staves [=letters]." | Having been spoken throughout Suðreyjar, Scots Norse had a dialect within the Isle of Mann (Scots Norse ''"monø̀jr"'' /mɒ.ˈnei̯θ͇/). Little is known about Manx Norse (''monø̀sk''), as it is very poorly recorded, the most extensive description being a short document from around 1500AD that contains a list of about 150 words, with a very poor description of the pronunciations. Though from this description we can gather that Manx Norse still had the dental fricatives that had been lost in other dialects (merging with t/d), we get this from the description "... these [th and dh] are like that of the Saxons' beloved þ or the Scots' [Gaels'] sounds of the same staves [=letters]." | ||
===Modern Scots Norse=== | ===Modern Scots Norse=== | ||
Modern Scots Norse is typically classed as endangered due to how few speakers it has, having no more than 37,000 native speakers as of 2020, and virtually all of them live in the Hebrides, making it extremely limited. | |||
Since the early 1990's, Scots Norse has gained a small but dedicated community of linguists that are determined to document it and make resources more readily available. As of 2018, an online course has been published that goes over Standard Scots Norse, and it has been continually updated since then, improving the quality and extent of the contents, having started out as a rather barebones description of the phonology, orthography, and rudimentary grammar. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
====Strong nouns==== | ====Strong nouns==== | ||
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===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
====Strong verbs==== | ====Strong verbs==== | ||
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'''Original (English)''': | '''Original (English)''': | ||
:All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. | :All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. | ||
==Lexical comparison== | ==Lexical comparison== | ||
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