Re: [Ietf-languages] Language subtag registration form

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 8:19 AM Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham=
[e-mail]> wrote:

I see no evidence of an army or a navy, though the Danish armed forces
> are probably good evidence that the local tongue of Bornholm is not a
> dialect of Swedish.
>

On the other hand, Cawdor Barracks in Pembrokeshire is not good evidence
that Welsh is a western dialect of English.


> It might be better to introduce it as the "Bornholmsk Scandinavian
> dialect".  Is it true that it has the same orthography as Danish?
>

No, it has its own unique orthography.  For the most part, however,
it falls on the Danish rather than the Swedish side of various isoglosses,
notably the change of voiced stops to fricatives (it does have long
consonants like Swedish, though)  However, it has
neither stød nor tones, a characteristic shared with Finland Swedish.


> Could the interpretation of the locale usefully fall back to
> standard Danish when there is no usable data for Bornholmsk?
>

Probably everyone over five on Bornholm understands Standard Danish
even when it is very remote from the dialect, so in practice yes.  But then
again
exactly the same holds in Wales (always excepting the sheepdogs).

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