Talk:Sognamål
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[edit] Is that it?
Is that all we know about Sognamål? Don't we have, for instance any written source from the middle ages, a runic inscription, an alliterative poem, a rímur or something that could give us any other information, any philological study made by some Norwegian linguist, hasn't anyone made a comparative linguistics essay on Sognamål, or even just a dictionary? Is all the corpus we have for it Windir lyrics? =P Come on, there must be something else. Someone do something! Ciacchi 23:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- Of course there is more... http://dikt.org/Fra_Sognefjorden but i suppose it is a subject that people of Sogn should fill in...
[edit] Examples
Is there a reason that the examples are printed in all upper-case letters? Is this somehow typical orthography for Sognamål? Or is it just because someone felt like capitalizing all the examples?--Vishahu (talk) 05:27, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- It is just the choice of whoever added them to the article. Without being an expert I would assume that Sognamål would most effectively be written with an adapted and conservative version of Modern Norwegian orthography with some borrowings from Icelandic, for example á instead of å in words like "blue" (Modern Norwegian: blå, Icelandic/Sognamål: blár). It is an interesting subject, and I would very much like to see someone try to create an orthography for Sognamål (or Sognamál?) grounded in what already exists in western Scandinavia. -- Nidator T / C 13:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
