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Gøtudanskt/Dano-Faroese (pronounced , Faroese for " (Norðra)gøta Danish" or alternatively "street Danish") is a name for a variant of
Danish language Danish (; , ) is a North Germanic language spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern German region of Southern Schles ...
spoken in the
Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...
. Its intonation and pronunciation are influenced by Faroese.


Etymology

Poulsen (1993) attributes the term to a teacher (1850–1930) from the small village of Gøta on
Eysturoy Eysturoy (pronounced estroimeaning 'East Island') is a region and the second-largest of the Faroe Islands, both in size and population. Description Eysturoy is separated by a narrow sound from the main island of Streymoy. Eysturoy is extremely ...
who spoke Danish with a pronounced accent, his idiolect forming the basis of many of the common features of Gøtudanskt.


Definition of ''Gøtudanskt''

Gøtudanskt is highly proficient (L2) Danish spoken mainly as the written Danish standard by Faroe Islanders with Faroese interference at all levels of language processing. It is characteristic for the elder generation. The younger generation usually (but not always) uses
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Danish pronunciation. An example of Gøtudanskt is the jingle "" ‘Away from the road! The king is sledding’, where comes from the Faroese verb ‘to sled’. Another is from Poulsen (1993): , where corresponds to Faroese and to Faroese , ‘The big ones (
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) outside the
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can break fishing rods’. The traditional Faroese way of singing hymns (the Kingo song) uses Gøtudanskt. The
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's songs "Ramund Hin Unge" on the album ''
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'' and "Sinklars vísa" on the album ''
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'' are also sung in Gøtudanskt.


See also

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Dano-Norwegian Dano-Norwegian (Danish and no, dansk-norsk) was a koiné/mixed language that evolved among the urban elite in Norwegian cities during the later years of the union between the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway (1536/1537–1814). It is from this ...
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Stadsfries dialects Stadsfries () or Town Frisian ( fy, Stedsk, link=no, ) is a set of dialects spoken in certain cities in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands, namely Leeuwarden, Sneek, Bolsward, Franeker, Dokkum, Harlingen, Stavoren, and to som ...
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Missingsch () is a type of Low-German-coloured dialect or sociolect of German. It is characterised by Low-German-type structures and the presence of numerous calques and loanwords from Low German in High German. Description A more technical definition o ...
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Jopara language Jopara () or Yopará () is a colloquial form of Guarani spoken in Paraguay which uses a number of Spanish loan words. Its name is from the Guarani word for "mixture".Britton, A. Scott (2004). ''Guarani-English/English-Guarani Concise Dictionary' ...
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Diglossia In linguistics, diglossia () is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community. In addition to the community's everyday or vernacular language variety (labeled " ...


References

* Petersen, H. P. (to appear) Væk af vejen, konge skrejen. Gøtudanskt or Dano-Faroese. RASK * Poulsen, J. H. W. 1993. Gøtudanskt. Odense University Press. — Twenty-eight papers presented to Hans Bekker-Nielsen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, 28 April 1993. North Germanic languages Faroese language Danish language Danish dialects Mixed languages {{Nordic-lang-stub