Re: THEORY: Tonogenesis (?) from PIE (Was: The rebirth of m"/21aw as mql21aw)

* Paul.Bennett@xncorp.com (Paul.Bennett@xncorp.com) [991105 21:13]:
> I'll get meself down to Waterstones and pick up TY Norwegian, and see=20
> what I can figure out.
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> Actually ... I rather fancy another trip down to Foyles to go ooh and=20
> aah, and shell out some more beer vouchers for significant and weighty
> tomes. Is there a definitive work on the history of rural norwegian?
I don't know of any written in English... and -what- rural Norwegian are
you looking for? Eastern, eastern-in-the-north, western, northern, far=20
northern, southern, middle, hills, norwegian-swedish, norwegian-finnish,
norwegian-russian etc., bokm=E5l, riksmaal, nynorsk, landsmaal? </evil gr=
in>

Seriously... I think some of the dialects north of Oslo, and some east
of Bergen, are considered hicky and rural, even by the speakers
themselves, but generally, dialects have a very high status in Norway.

I'll look around :)

Here are some reference-works on the official standards anyway (sorry,
I don't know the ISBNs):

Bokm=E5lsordboka
Nynorskordboka
Norsk Referansegrammatikk

And spr=E5kr=E5det, the Norwegian answer to Academie Fran=E7aise and simi=
lar
institutions is at http://www.sprakrad.no/

If you can read swedish or danish than the above should be easy...


tal.
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