Some examples of the dialect variation and diversity in Norway

[@lisavelajen]

That finnmarking cursing about the weather is representing every Northern Norwegian

[@johansvideor]

I'm a Swedish speaker from Finland, Ostrobothnia and I understand best the examples from the middle of the country and the ones from Finnmark. Some things sound very similar in my own Swedish dialect, like "mytji meir" (much more) that we pronounce exactly the same. The Nynorsk way of spelling feels very natural, fits very well with my own dialect. We have the same old diphthongs, like "stein", "heim", "röyk" etc.

[@FluxTrax]

Yes it's very surprising to hear the similarities between Närpes dialect and Trøndersk

[@StaceySeelie]

Listening as a non-native of both Norwegian and Swedish, the very last one (Finnmark-Sami) sounded closer to the Swedish accent to my ears. Thank you so much for this video! As a learner of Norwegian (and Swedish) I don't find many examples of the Northern dialects/accents and I really want to listen to them more, so I appreciate this a lot.

[@fnym9rdsavsffdik9a25]

the sami people have been living a long time in fennoscandia and as such they have spread out to a degree so currently sami people live in finland, sweden and russia, and as such the language have been mixed a bit but because the sami society was rather isolated there are not a lot of mutual intelligibility between norwegian, swedish, finnish (unsure about russian but I doubt it) & sami, in case you might find it interesting, there are 2 other languages in northern norway that is not mentioned in the video one extinct pidgin language (russenorsk/russernorsk last used in 1923 so kind of understandable) and one living language (kvensk/kvääni) that is a variant of finnish that was used in northern norway, from what I remember the finnish use saksalainen for germans and the kvens use tyskerlainen (lainen is a suffix that designate the origin of the person, saksa means saxon in old saxon and tysker means german in modern norwegian)

[@StaceySeelie]

@@fnym9rdsavsffdik9a25 Thank you so much for this! I've never heard of those two languages and I am indeed interested in learning more. It's time for me to do some research. :)

[@lassekristoffersen5906]

Nynorsk...nei takk. Alle mulige slags dialekter...ja takk. MEN lydene fra Rogaland er grusomme å høre på.

[@lorrainegatanianhits8331]

Actually a huge variation in dialect, wow.

[@nearjuice5072]

Intressant video. Som svensk har jag lättast att förstå dialekterna från Sogn og fjordane och Finnmark. Bergen och Oslo-dialekterna har jag också rätt lätt att förstå eftersom det är de jag hör oftast.

[@exentr]

Jeg er finnmarking. Jeg besøkte en barndomsvenn i Sødermannslands län. Noen påsto at jeg snakka nordsvensk. De ville ikke tro at jeg er norsk. Jeg vet ikke om de mente alvor.

[@kjvinside4932]

HAHA!! Veldig bra video. Takk fr at du brkte MYE tid på denne! Genialt.

[@BobbiMac]

The last two before the last one, the northern accent and fin mark, the rhythm and melody of the speech is just like Gaelic speakers from the Isle of Lewis. The last one, filmmaker with Sami accent sounds like them as well but less so.

[@BobbiMac]

People there told stories of men arriving on shore who were half seal. They’d shed their seal skins and turn into men, and if you hid their skins they’d marry local women. But if they found their skins, they’d leave and go back out to see. People think the stories came from Sami people travelling to the Hebrides in their seal skin clothes and seal skin canoes.

[@FluxTrax]

TBF, the Gaelic speakers in Suðreyar might as well speak with a norse accent

[@nicolaiby1846]

@@BobbiMac It's almost certainly a Greenlandic Eskimo that ended up in Scotland, not a Sami. Sami people don't use sealskin clothing.

[@BobbiMac]

I watch a soap tv show in Scot’s Gaelic called Machair set on the Isle of Lewis. To people in Britain it’s available on the bbc website. The last few speakers on this video, their accent and intonation were just like the people in Machair. I know the people on lewis are a mix of Irish and Vikings from Norway. But it’s still surprising to hear how similar their accents are.

[@countryclub1113]

That's really interesting! 🤔

[@yogxoth1959]

The Finnmark dialect was very understandable as a Swede.

[@jonasHM]

Which was the most difficult one?

[@fylke1814]

It’s probably all the cursing😂🍺

[@nearjuice5072]

​@@jonasHMJæren was the hardest one for me (I'm also Swedish)

[@luch9813]

E nord norsk tett på svensk eller ?

[@exentr]

@@luch9813 Ja, jeg tror det. På et eller anna vis resonnerer nordnorsk til nordsvensk for sydsvensker. Jeg har opplevd det. Flere personer uavhengige av hverandre sa at jeg snakka svensk/nordsvensk. Om det er ei "greie" de tuller med i sørsverige eller hva det er, vet jeg ikke. Jeg ble småstressa av det

[@nicolaiby1846]

Kjellen representing Sunnmøre and Oluf to represent Nord Norge is just fucking gold lmao

[@NyrVindr]

As a spanish speaker, I love this

[@kjirsten7600]

Can you find or do you have more samples? I would love to hear Lyngdal, Vest-Adger. You don't have to make a video for me, you can just direct me to the sample of that dialect. Also if you could include an Arendal, Aust-Adger sample.

[@larsmonsen88]

Fy faen her er det mange gullkorn fra gammelt norsk TV.. Shouout til Arne Brimi.

[@alessandrolelli3212]

The funniest thing is that they sound all the same to me 😂,maybe it's the fact I am from Italy so the language is totally different!

[@Mnnvint]

Some of these, like the princess, are reading from scripts and that makes you speak differently than when you're talking naturally. And some are comedians doing the dialect as part of their act (the guy at 12:05 for instance, Arthur Arntsen at 14:17 and Ingor Ánte Áilo Gaup at 16:53), even if it's their natural dialect they don't exactly speak in their natural voice.

[@Ama-hi5kn]

In Aust-Agder county we also use the expression "Gyslse".

[@ryder_hd]

Are they mutually intelligible? I’m about to start learning Norwegian but I don’t want to not be able to communicate with most of the country!

[@kaste94]

Norway has many dialects. Some more understandable than others. Some dialects is even not understandable to many norwegians. Norway has two written languages and Bokmål is the most common to learn. Bokmål is most like the Oslo dialect and central eastern areas of Norway.

[@lmatt88]

The thing is Norwegians are used to their millions of dialects. As a foreigner it will be a challenge.

[@exentr]

@@lmatt88 Look up English dialects on youtube. It is a variety of dialects but when you handle English, you can understand more. Same in Norwegian.

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Some 20 years ago I worked with two guys from the westcost, both on an island, but not the same island, and they had to talk English to each other, with me looking at them, not believing my own ears, and the manager laughing so he almost fell off the chair, so, not understanding is more the rule, same with a guy I worked with from stavanger, I had no problem, until he met some of his friends from his childhood, I had no idea what he said anymore

[@lmatt88]

@@doncarlodivargas5497 wow first time I hear that

[@kirohaas3193]

Kunne ha trengt ei breiare variasjon på Nord-Norske dialekta, for eksempel Tromsø, Bodø og Harstad, og ikkje bære han Oluf imot en kar fra Brønnøysund. Burde ikkje være vanskelig å finne et klip fra Pelle Politibil før å vise fram Bodø-dialekta.

[@kaste94]

Ja, helt enig. Det får bli i neste video. Denne videoen ble egentlig laget til privat bruk for noen i USA ☺️

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Hva med den videoen på KZbin hvor en kar fra nordnorge banner så det lyser i flere minutter? Mener å huske han slet med å reparere en vaskemaskin?

[@FluxTrax]

​@@doncarlodivargas5497satan inn i innerste røde helvete!

[@RobbEsspisi]

@@doncarlodivargas5497 Han fra Saltdal, ja! Dæven, den e læng si æ har hørt... Absolutt gullkorn!

[@HG-sx5xz]

More examples of Nord-Norge would be good xD

[@tk-bs3cd]

ja helt ærlig. ihvertfall forskjellige eksempler fra nordland, lofoten og tromsø

[@dan74695]

Dæ tykkje æg mæd.

[@dan74695]

@@tk-bs3cd Hadde vore gott mæd nokker døma frå Ofotn, um måle ikkje e utvatna. Folk tala jævle utvatna her i Narvik by...

[@dan74695]

Nord-Norgje

[@annominous826]

Oluf is kind of not really representative.

[@FluxTrax]

Kjell Kjellen Bigseth ftw!

[@seriksson9721]

"Kempe greit", nu kanske man förstår lite bättre. Tack

[@CarpetHater]

Mette Marit snakkår ikke den breieste varianten a Kristiansandsdialekta, men god video allikavel.

[@kaste94]

Nei, hun gjør ikke det, men hun har likevel den typiske moderne dialekten fra Kristiansand. Denne videoen er på ingen måte profesjonell. Noen av dialektene er helt klart breiere enn andre.

[@CarpetHater]

@@kaste94 Honningbarna hadde vært et godt eksempel, moderne men fortsatt lidd breiere. Men uansett utroli bra laga video ;)

[@kaste94]

Er ikke akkurat alle eksemplene som er den breieste dielekten for sitt distrikt.

[@CarpetHater]

@@kaste94 nei, kanskje ikke, Mette Marit snakkår garantert uden tvil Kristiansandsdialekt.

[@dan74695]

Du e hær også? Kaofkøwfløwlfåwøføskfowora

[@katarinastene9069]

Valle!)

[@ultra_axe7812]

Bardu/målselvdøl e vert å nevneå

[@Ama-hi5kn]

Jeg digger alltid vestlandsdialektene. Men dåkke glemte Rogalandsdialektene.

[@dan74695]

Æg mæd, når dæ æ brettj målføre. Æg æ frå Ofotn.

[@dan74695]

Æg har høyrt rogalennsjk mæd rullje-r.

[@hildegunnurdahl5130]

...såg ihvertfall ein om eg hugse riktig?

[@Sebastian-v9l8l]

Pastuchy.

[@hablahei1]

Sleikjepå

[@redqueeen2950]

Vinje som representerer fra Telemark?! Hva faen 🤣🤣🤣

[@kaste94]

Vinje er jo det ypperste fra Telemark! Og øvre Vest-Telemark er jo det opprinnelige Telemark historisk sett.

[@redqueeen2950]

@@kaste94 Som eksemple på Telemark dialekt? veeeeeel..... Nei. Trenger flere byer for det

[@dan74695]

The Oslo dialect is dead...

[@FredrikSkievan]

Jaså?

[@LennyHumes]

Ya cuz of Standard Østnorsk that's spreading even outside Oslo nowadays , I recently met someone from Oppland and she said she and her generation just speak that Standard Urban East Norwegian

[@hallvardlundehervig5508]

Not completely. I would say that it has merged to a large degree into the modern daily speech of Oslo. «Åssen» which the Oslo dialect word for «hvordan» is still in use for example, however most people only use it informally.

[@dan74695]

@@hallvardlundehervig5508 Yeah, it's not completely gone yet. Most people just speak Bokmål today. Their spoken language is based on the written language.

[@dan74695]

@@LennyHumes Målføri våre døyr, ja. Folk talar ovutvatnat her i Narvik by og.

[@Dariusuzu]

all sound german

[@kaste94]

If that's the case, you don't know how german sounds, lol 😃

[@_peepee_]

not at all what

[@Dariusuzu]

@@_peepee_ jeder ist wie deutsch mann kann nicht xd

[@FredrikSkievan]

cap

[@Stoirelius]

Dude, what???