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Germanic Language Tree Fan Art by snerk
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A large poster, showing the Scandinavian boys, on thick Gloss Art 170gsm paper.
Fan Art: Germanic Language Tree
Studying linguistics, you would not believe the amount of times the Scandinavian languages have cropped up in lectures, and every time I've been imagining one of humon's comics playing out... So here is my interpretation of the Germanic language 'family tree' using some SATW characters in some of my favourite poses =)
Some explanation needed:
- It's really not that appropriate to use a country name to represent a language, so these guys are representing the standards spoken in their respective countries OR the country which I would associate most with the language being represented.
- North Germanic:
West Scandinavian: Norwegian (Bokmal), Icelandic and Faroese.
East Scandinavian: Danish, Norwegian (Nynorsk) and Swedish (Norway appears in both East and West Scandinavian to reflect the differences between Nynorsk (classed as West Scandinavian) and Bokmal (East).)
- East Germanic: Gothic (represented by the urn here because it is a dead language... and I couldn't find any better representative!)
- West Germanic: Dutch, German, English, Scots and Afrikaans. I chose to use England to represent English, through personal choice. To start adding America, Australia and New Zealand would have made this map a little too complicated! I chose to use the England flag because of the Celtic languages associated with Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Scotland is looking confused on three counts: should he be represented by England as speaking English? Is he representing Scots as a language in its own right? Or should he be back with his Celtic mates in a completely separate family tree? He realises the flaw in using nations to represent languages...
South Africa doesn't look all that pleased because he's also unsure whether he's there representing English spoken in South Africa, or as a representative of Afrikaans. And why did Yiddish not get to make an appearance? (The reason for this is I couldn't find a suitable representative for Yiddish...)
So, all in all, not as easy as I first thought it would be, although it did get me thinking on all nature of things relating to national and linguistic identity. I think Sweden's face sums it all up really, he's figured that this is not the best way to represent the Germanic language family and doesn't realise why so many of the rest of these guys looks so darned happy...
By: snerk 28th July 2011
7:48am Thu 8th Mar #8227882
The perfect character for Yiddish would have been Israel, if he was in Satw, because this language is mainly spoken by jews (they are in german "Juden" which sounds a bit familiar to yiddish).
The perfect character for Yiddish would have been Israel, if he was in Satw, because this language is mainly spoken by jews (they are in german "Juden" which sounds a bit familiar to yiddish).
10:00am Thu 10th Nov #874577
Old-norwegian is almost icelandic and todays norwegian is much like danish. Here's a comic from humon to show it
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Old-norwegian is almost icelandic and todays norwegian is much like danish. Here's a comic from humon to show it
[link]
10:54am Wed 24th Aug #656876
Norwegian is almost danish because of the union so really norwegian is east-scandinavian
Norwegian is almost danish because of the union so really norwegian is east-scandinavian
9:15am Fri 12th Aug #622087
too bad the Amish and Mennonites don't have a symbol that would be usable (they're swiss origin and speak a form of Low German). switzerland is caught between german and Latin groups 'cause I believe they use both. and Austria doesn't count, if I remember right, since they're just a german dialect?
too bad the Amish and Mennonites don't have a symbol that would be usable (they're swiss origin and speak a form of Low German). switzerland is caught between german and Latin groups 'cause I believe they use both. and Austria doesn't count, if I remember right, since they're just a german dialect?
9:29am Wed 3rd Aug #589929
I'm a horrible person because I laughed at the urn.
Good job, anyways. xD
I'm a horrible person because I laughed at the urn.
Good job, anyways. xD
5:54am Wed 3rd Aug #589395
@noiamnotsinging
But the Icelandic language is part of the Scandinavic part of the Germanic languages.
@noiamnotsinging
But the Icelandic language is part of the Scandinavic part of the Germanic languages.
7:06am Fri 29th Jul #570883
English is part of the Germanic language family, but it's also significantly cross-bred with the Romance languages (specifically French, from the Norman invasion) and of course will borrow vocabulary from anywhere.
English is part of the Germanic language family, but it's also significantly cross-bred with the Romance languages (specifically French, from the Norman invasion) and of course will borrow vocabulary from anywhere.
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Shouldn't Scotland be in the middle of the West Germanics, and the North Germanics? Since Scotland does have two official languages: Scots, which is close to English, but has a Celtic mixture in it to make it different, and then Scottish Gaelic, which is more closely related to the Nordic languages, since Scottish Gaelic is based off of Viking languages?