Re: Linguistic measurements

Danish and Norwegian look nearly identical in writing, and are
mutually understandable in writing . Swedish look somewhat more
different, but still mutually understandable with Norwegian/Danish.

The pronunciation is quite another business. Danish is phoneticly
very different from Norwegian and Swedish.

Norwegian/Swedish are mutually understandable both in writing and
speech. You must have some training to coprehend Danish.

The grammar of these languages are nearly identical. The main
difference is that the three-gender-system of IE has been simplified
to an animate/inanimate system in Swedish and Danish. In Norwegian
the feminine gender still exists as a declention within the animate
gender, but also here the concordance in ajectives is governed only
by the distinction animate/inanimate.