Are Swedish and norwegian languages the same?

Answer 1

No. There are similarities, but they are different languages.

To explain in further detail, Swedish belongs to the East Scandinavian branch of the Germanic Family Tree, along with Danish, whereas Norwegian belongs to the West Scandinavian branch, along with Icelandic and Faroese.

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian look fairly similar but do have many differences. Norwegian is more similar to Danish in how in many of it's words and how it's written, as the Danes have had a large influence over Norway throughout history. In it's pronunciation, it's closer to Swedish than Danish. There are 2 Norwegian languages, one is called Bokmål, which is the standard language, and which is the language similar to Danish. And the other language is Nynorsk, which has been created from the dialects of Norway without the Danish influence. Nynorsk, has some similarities with Icelandic, which is the language that has least changed since the end of the Viking Age.

Here are some examples of words and phrases in each of the three languages:

Swedish Norwegian Danish English

att upprepa å gjenta at gentage to repeat

Jag är studerande Jeg er student Jeg er studerende I am a student

Jag heter... Jeg heter... Jeg hedder... my name is....

I hope that this has answered your question more clearly.

(basically, these languages are almost like British English, American English, and Australian English. They are all more or less the same, but there are many many words that are not known or recognized in the other languages. Granted the differences between brit eng, American eng, and Aussie eng are not as big as the Scandinavian languages, but still, there are many differences. And not many people think of it like i do.)