You are actually right.
I am talking about fine distinctions.
Phonetically standard Norwegian and Swedish are nearly identical.
The difference in the grammar is very small between the three
languages.
The main difference is that Norwagian has 3 genders, where Swedish
and Denish have a animate/inanimate-like system (masculine and
femimine fallen together).
Norwegian/Swedish is very different in pronounciation from Denish.
Norwegian/Denish have near the same vocabolary. Swedish is somewhat
more apart in vocabolary.
Norwegian/Swedish have a fonemic tone system. Danish has a system of
syllables with something called "stød" - meaning "hit, push" or
lacking "stød" instead. For me a vowel with this phenomenon sounds
like it is chopped in two pieces with a rapid glottal stop.
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> aquila_grande <aquila_grande@...> wrote:
> Even though I can clearly hear the swedish sounds to be clearly
> related, they sound different than the norwegian ones.
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> From what I've heard of Norwegian, to my English ear it sounds
very similar to Swedish, even though a Norwegian would not think
so. But to my English ear Danish sounds rather different from
either Swedish or Norwegian, even though Danish and Norwegian are
more closely related to each other than is Swedish to Norwegian.
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