>>4302077>Why aren't they considered dialects of the same language if they are so similar though?Well, they're still different, they are spelled differently and sound different.
I guess you could just give them the collective label of Scandinavian as I've seen some people do but i don't think people would be a fan of it being used officially.
What would you think of Spanish and Portuguese just being called Iberian?
>If Danish is more similar the other Scandinavian languages than Norwegian then you have it easy to learn both Norwegian and Danish-like languagesIt's not though, Norwegian is the middle point between them I'd say, a Norwegian has a much better chance of understanding and being understood than the others if they were speaking.
Danish has these weird pronunciations that are pretty hard to understand if you're not Danish.
The only reason why Danish is being taught in Icelandic schools now is because it's a holdover from when we were under their rule.
I guarantee if we switched over to Norwegian instead much more students would pick up on it quicker, hell Icelanders can pretty easily learn to read danish and that's pretty much identical to Norwegian, the only issue is the pronunciation.
