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Siouxstar β Alphabets of the World: Nordic
Published: 2010-10-06 14:34:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 11400; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 27
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Ever since I started studying about the Anglo-Saxon time period in British Literature, I recognized some of the Old English letters because they were in the modern Icelandic alphabet. Because of this, I decided to explore the alphabets of the world (obviously the modern alphabets). I was also inspired by Humon's SatW comic "Nothing is Perfect": [link] . I started with the Nordic alphabets.^^BTW, for Iceland's pose, I used "I Love You": [link]
For those of you who do not understand what Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland is saying, I will provide translations.
Denmark: The Danish and Norwegian Alphabet!
Sweden: The Swedish and Finnish Alphabet
Iceland: The Icelandic Alphabet
Up next is the Romance languages. No, not romance like love, but Roman language (Latin) origin, ie Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc.
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Γ land, Finland, Iceland, SatW (c) Humon
Artwork (c) Me
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I didn't want to check if this had been asked before, so forgive me if it had, and you're wellcome to delete my comment or whatever, but why is Denmark talking like that? The correct way would be "Det danske og norske alfabet" (yes, i am danish)
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But i think it is great anyway!!!!!!!! Love it!!!
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There's no Finland saying it finnish, because Finland dosen't talk, but if he did it would be: 'Suomalaiset ja Ruotsalaiset aakkoset.' Just saying, and don't really know why... ^^'
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errr.. not to sound bitchy, but I'm icelandic and there is no C in our alphabet -.- otherwise it's pretty cool ;D
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Okay. And you don't sound bitchy.
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^.^ good, i sometimes come out that way when i'm not trying to XD
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If you end up doing Germanic, you have to include English! We're both a Romantic AND Germanic language!
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We're what the French call spΓ©cials.
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The Icelandic alphabet, grammar just the whole language is probably the hardest language in the world O.O seriously i hate grammar-classes but itΒ΄s a cool pic
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Haha cute
Mad Finland reminds me of the Finns wanting to βThrow awayβ the βΓ
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being the symbol of βpakkoruotsiβ (enforced Swedish) [link] and all 
just one thing, thereβs a minor error in the Swedish sentence too, it should be βDetβ instead of βDeβ Right now it says βThem Swedish alphabetβ 
But I really admire you for trying 
I could only imagine how confusing Det/Den/Dem/De should be for a non Scandinavian speaker
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Yeah. Thank you for notifying me on that. I'll change it when I get the chance.
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Its called "Det Danske og norske alfabet"
Den/det is like der/die/das in german, and the correct is det
.......
Atleast on Danish ;D but except for that, Brilliant!
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Thank you. I have already been told that, and I am going to correct it when I have the chance.
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Nice. One pointer for you, though. We(Icelanders) don't actually have C in our alphabet. We may use it on occasion for "special cases" such as words and names with foreign influence or origin, but that's pretty much it.
As wiki tells it: The letters C, Q and W are only used in Icelandic in words of foreign origin and some proper names that are also of foreign origin. Otherwise, c, qu, and w are substituted with k/s/ts, hv, and v respectively.
Have a good day.
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Ah thank you. I will correct that when I get the chance.
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How brilliant! And God, Iceland has a lot of letters. Nice drawings as well, you've really captured their personalities!
Just a single thing is wrong; It's called "Det danske og norske alfabet", not "Den ..." Danish is a pain in the ass on that point, but... yeah (:
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Thank you.
I will correct it when I have the chance.
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The iclandic alphabet looks cool, I didΒ΄t know they hade "ΓΆ" as well... (Im from sweden) Nice work on art!
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They do. ^_^
Thank you. Or "tack", as you say in Swedish.
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I know this because my ex-boyfriend taught me some Norwegian, and I know that Norwegian is close Swedish.
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Yeah.^^ I still remember some of it, but not much.
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