00:00Denmark and Norway have different official languages. Kind of.
00:04Because both languages are part of the North Germanic language family,
00:07they're closely related enough to be mutually intelligible to some extent,
00:10especially in writing, and especially for Buk-Moll, one of Norwegian's two main written varieties.
00:16For centuries, Norway was ruled by a Danish-speaking elite while part of the Union of Denmark-Norway,
00:21which was not an equal partnership but dominated by Denmark.
00:25After the end of the Union, Buk-Moll was to a large extent adapted from Danish.
00:30But despite Buk-Moll and Danish being very similar in writing,
00:33the pronunciation of Norwegian and Danish is quite different,
00:36making them much less mutually intelligible in speech.
00:39In each country, the dominant ethnicity, Danish and Norwegian respectively,
00:43make up the vast majority of the population.
00:46But there are different minority groups in either country, which reflects their geography.
00:50For Denmark, which borders Germany to the south,
00:52the most historically important is the German minority of the Northern Schleswig area.
00:57Schleswig, or Schleswig, was historically a duchy controlled by Denmark,
01:02and it had inhabitants who spoke Danish, Frisian, and Low German.
01:05After a war in 1864, Denmark lost all of the territory to Austria and Prussia,
01:10but after the First World War, it became divided between Denmark and Germany.
01:14Today, the German-speaking population of Northern Schleswig is small, about 15,000 people,
01:20but German is recognized as a minority language in Denmark.
01:23In Norway, almost half of which lies above the Arctic Circle,
01:26an important historic minority is the Sami people,
01:29a group of semi-nomadic peoples who traditionally engaged in reindeer herding.
01:33The Sami people live across the high Arctic nations of Northern Europe,
01:37including Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
01:39The Sami people speak Sami languages,
01:41a group of related languages in the Uralic language family,
01:44meaning they're related to Finnish.
01:45The Sami Š¹Š¾Š³Š¾ airing K Ashura
01:54The Sami people speak French.
01:56Keep streaming to Josh Sharma's phone
02:01where I am with a cooperation
02:02with the Japanese-speaking language and theÄkiche all the way they experience.
02:06Have a great day.
02:07I had a professional working Karen K dessert
02:10inMusic and the Chinese-speaking propaganda
02:12have a real background.
02:13Yeah, I've beenē”¬ing doing this course.
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