Yesterday I began messing with Scandinavian dialects again, and ended up making this map. It uses a somewhat non-standard classification for the different varieties than what's usually seen. The accuracy of this classification can obviously be discussed, but I think it's fairly good. One main point of this map was that I wanted to try to step away from labelling everything with "Danish" or "Norwegian" because, well, it's a continuum. This is why you see some non-standard terms used for some varieties, although, this is not the case for all of them. And just so we're clear, I'm not saying these are all part of the same continuum, or that they're all dialects or something like that. I'm pointing out general varieties of the North Scandinavian language in a traditional/historical sense.
Comments and criticism is most welcome, especially thoughts about the classification are welcome, as it's rather experimental than something that I'm arguing for. And even if you don't know or care too much about Scandinavian languages, I thought this could still be interesting, because it's an interesting map. :)
And in case anyone's wondering, the 2 encirlced pixels refer to
Runö (Ruhnu) and
Gammelsvenskby (Старошведське). Also note that
"Swedish" should be read in the context of
svear, rather than of Sweden. I felt like making the names look good in English, which created this little ambiguity, but what're you gonna do :(
So, here you go:
C
J
