Skundavisk
@skundavisk.bsky.social
A page dedicated on the Skundavisk language, a Germanic conlang developed mostly from Old Saxon.
Internationally known Scandinavian music be like:
Black and death metal
Danceable Europop
Mijnersijden wikselt mijn kennis ðes swedisken glyws mykel to støplijk fråm ABBA to Bathory! 😁
Black and death metal
Danceable Europop
Mijnersijden wikselt mijn kennis ðes swedisken glyws mykel to støplijk fråm ABBA to Bathory! 😁
June 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Internationally known Scandinavian music be like:
Black and death metal
Danceable Europop
Mijnersijden wikselt mijn kennis ðes swedisken glyws mykel to støplijk fråm ABBA to Bathory! 😁
Black and death metal
Danceable Europop
Mijnersijden wikselt mijn kennis ðes swedisken glyws mykel to støplijk fråm ABBA to Bathory! 😁
Hard to swallow pills: Low German vocabulary is now more used in Scandinavia than in Northern Germany
June 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hard to swallow pills: Low German vocabulary is now more used in Scandinavia than in Northern Germany
Just one more episode
Just one more page
Just one more piece
Just one more article about Old Norse u-umlaut
Just one more page
Just one more piece
Just one more article about Old Norse u-umlaut
May 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just one more episode
Just one more page
Just one more piece
Just one more article about Old Norse u-umlaut
Just one more page
Just one more piece
Just one more article about Old Norse u-umlaut
Latin spelling: "No one has said 'losna' and 'duenos' in the last 200 years, let's spell them 'luna' and 'bonus' now."
French spelling: "Please, don't suppress the 'i' of 'oignon', iT iS oUr HiStOrY"
French spelling: "Please, don't suppress the 'i' of 'oignon', iT iS oUr HiStOrY"
May 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Latin spelling: "No one has said 'losna' and 'duenos' in the last 200 years, let's spell them 'luna' and 'bonus' now."
French spelling: "Please, don't suppress the 'i' of 'oignon', iT iS oUr HiStOrY"
French spelling: "Please, don't suppress the 'i' of 'oignon', iT iS oUr HiStOrY"
Icelandic: "We are still friends, aren't we?"
Norwegian: "Those days are long gone, I'm Continental Scandinavian now."
Norwegian: "Those days are long gone, I'm Continental Scandinavian now."
April 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Icelandic: "We are still friends, aren't we?"
Norwegian: "Those days are long gone, I'm Continental Scandinavian now."
Norwegian: "Those days are long gone, I'm Continental Scandinavian now."
"Sorry guys, there is no "oldest language of the world' "
Nationalists - religious fanatics
Nationalists - religious fanatics
April 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"Sorry guys, there is no "oldest language of the world' "
Nationalists - religious fanatics
Nationalists - religious fanatics
Whenever you see an English word with "ea"
April 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you see an English word with "ea"
"Goths"
"invade the collapsing Roman Empire"
"conquer large territories"
"forget the Gothic language"
"invade the collapsing Roman Empire"
"conquer large territories"
"forget the Gothic language"
April 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Goths"
"invade the collapsing Roman Empire"
"conquer large territories"
"forget the Gothic language"
"invade the collapsing Roman Empire"
"conquer large territories"
"forget the Gothic language"
"AI-generated Ghibli-styled images"
"my thread these last three days"
"my thread these last three days"
April 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"AI-generated Ghibli-styled images"
"my thread these last three days"
"my thread these last three days"
"Do you speak Icelandic?"
"Yes"
"Alas, if only I could speak it"
"Yes"
"Alas, if only I could speak it"
March 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Do you speak Icelandic?"
"Yes"
"Alas, if only I could speak it"
"Yes"
"Alas, if only I could speak it"
Welsh: Well, I can explain!
Irish: You have 562,000 native speakers while I only have 80,000?
Scottish Gaelic: 80,000? I only have 58,000
Cornish: You guys have native speakers?
Irish: You have 562,000 native speakers while I only have 80,000?
Scottish Gaelic: 80,000? I only have 58,000
Cornish: You guys have native speakers?
March 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Welsh: Well, I can explain!
Irish: You have 562,000 native speakers while I only have 80,000?
Scottish Gaelic: 80,000? I only have 58,000
Cornish: You guys have native speakers?
Irish: You have 562,000 native speakers while I only have 80,000?
Scottish Gaelic: 80,000? I only have 58,000
Cornish: You guys have native speakers?
"If everyone spoke the same language, there would be no war anymore."
"Then why are there wars between people who speak mutually intelligible languages?"
"Then why are there wars between people who speak mutually intelligible languages?"
March 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"If everyone spoke the same language, there would be no war anymore."
"Then why are there wars between people who speak mutually intelligible languages?"
"Then why are there wars between people who speak mutually intelligible languages?"
Danish: "Unintelligible language"
Swedish: "Unintelligible language"
Icelandic: "Hi, what are you arguing about?"
Dano-Swedish: "Intelligible language"
Swedish: "Unintelligible language"
Icelandic: "Hi, what are you arguing about?"
Dano-Swedish: "Intelligible language"
March 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Danish: "Unintelligible language"
Swedish: "Unintelligible language"
Icelandic: "Hi, what are you arguing about?"
Dano-Swedish: "Intelligible language"
Swedish: "Unintelligible language"
Icelandic: "Hi, what are you arguing about?"
Dano-Swedish: "Intelligible language"
Discussions between defenders of regional languages:
-when it's about the officialization of their language
-when it's about the choice of the variety that will serve as the standard
-when it's about the officialization of their language
-when it's about the choice of the variety that will serve as the standard
March 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Discussions between defenders of regional languages:
-when it's about the officialization of their language
-when it's about the choice of the variety that will serve as the standard
-when it's about the officialization of their language
-when it's about the choice of the variety that will serve as the standard
"Lazy language memes if Shoundavish really existed"
March 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Lazy language memes if Shoundavish really existed"
Yes, English does have umlauts, it just doesn't use a diacritical mark to denote them 😁
March 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Yes, English does have umlauts, it just doesn't use a diacritical mark to denote them 😁
Language lovers, when they see conversations between people from different time periods or with aliens in movies:
"How can they understand each other?"
"How can they understand each other?"
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Language lovers, when they see conversations between people from different time periods or with aliens in movies:
"How can they understand each other?"
"How can they understand each other?"
Did you know? The French word for "left" comes from a conflation of two Frankish words.
March 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Did you know? The French word for "left" comes from a conflation of two Frankish words.
"The Frankish Empire after Charlemagne died"
"Charles the Bald - Lothair I - Louis the German"
"Charles the Bald - Lothair I - Louis the German"
March 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"The Frankish Empire after Charlemagne died"
"Charles the Bald - Lothair I - Louis the German"
"Charles the Bald - Lothair I - Louis the German"
English spelling be like: "no diacritical mark" - "10+ possible pronunciations for each letter"
March 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
English spelling be like: "no diacritical mark" - "10+ possible pronunciations for each letter"
Caribbean English and Scandinavian when it comes to 3rd person plural object pronouns: "dem"
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Caribbean English and Scandinavian when it comes to 3rd person plural object pronouns: "dem"
"In my time there were no controversies about pronouns"
Meanwhile, inside the Romance language family:
Meanwhile, inside the Romance language family:
March 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"In my time there were no controversies about pronouns"
Meanwhile, inside the Romance language family:
Meanwhile, inside the Romance language family:
"When you've been advised to practise your target language with native speakers, but your target language is Old Saxon"
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"When you've been advised to practise your target language with native speakers, but your target language is Old Saxon"
"The Michael Jackson-shaped Great Vowel Shift doesn't exist, it cannot harm you"
The Michael Jackson-shaped Great Vowel Shift:
The Michael Jackson-shaped Great Vowel Shift:
February 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"The Michael Jackson-shaped Great Vowel Shift doesn't exist, it cannot harm you"
The Michael Jackson-shaped Great Vowel Shift:
The Michael Jackson-shaped Great Vowel Shift:
My reaction when someone finds the sound /x/ ugly in German, Russian or Arabic
"Oh I see, what Spanish uses it, it's cute, but when German, Russian or Arabic use it, it's scary, utterly scary!"
"Oh I see, what Spanish uses it, it's cute, but when German, Russian or Arabic use it, it's scary, utterly scary!"
February 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My reaction when someone finds the sound /x/ ugly in German, Russian or Arabic
"Oh I see, what Spanish uses it, it's cute, but when German, Russian or Arabic use it, it's scary, utterly scary!"
"Oh I see, what Spanish uses it, it's cute, but when German, Russian or Arabic use it, it's scary, utterly scary!"