4/26/2023 0 Comments Russenorsk![]() ![]() We will not have written records of Russenorsk until 1785, though we have evidence of increasingly intense trade between the Norwegians of the centre-north and the Russians of the same latitudes, for at least a hundred years. ![]() The two countries shared borders, after all, at the end of the world in the early 18th century. What creature is this? The name clues us in: a mixture of Russian and Norwegian. ![]() An adventure that lasted about 150 years, there in the Big North, where the gods send auroras for humans to stare to the sky and find solace, in that captivating but deeply inhospitable land. ![]() So, then, I am going to tell you now the epic of a language that could have been and didn’t. No living speakers are left, but there are good reasons to remember it. Russenorsk is already a memory, it exists only on a few documents. Well, actually, a pidgin, which is to a language like what a silkworm is to a butterfly.Īnd while we’re at it, I’ll kill the suspense right away: it is not a pidgin, but it was. Well, it could be many things but it turns out to be… a language. What is Russenorsk, a language? Or is it more like a… A Danish metal band? A Häagen-Dazs ice cream, perhaps? □ Hello linguonaut! In this post, we talk about a linguistic phenomenon that most earthlings don’t give a damn about: Russenorsk! But if you’re here, it’s obvious that you don’t belong to the majority, so you’ll love Russenorsk and its fascinating story. ![]()
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