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  • Tim Jtimtfj@mastodon.social
    Oct 10, 2026, 5:00 PM

    @riley @dancingtreefrog I did think it sounded a bit late! But my picture of the dates of some of these things is pretty vague :-)

    Lots of interesting stuff in all that!

    Re the umlauts, at some point I looked at some of the various Wikipedias' articles¹ about the letter å, and was surprised to discover how early it was used in Swedish compared to Danish and Norwegian. I don't remember the actual dates now . . .
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    ¹ different language Wikipedias

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  • Tim Jtimtfj@mastodon.social
    Oct 10, 2026, 5:08 PM

    @riley @dancingtreefrog . . . but I think it was some time around the 1910s for Norwegian and a few years early for Danish, but something like 1400 or 1500 for Swedish. So basically Norwegian and Danish were adopting an old letter from Swedish.

    (NB the language situation was complicated. Norwegian didn't have a written form for something like 450 years because of Danish rule, and efforts to create one started in the mid 19th century, leading eventually to today's Bokmål and Nynorsk)

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