@xrevan86 Individual phonemes, like O and A in this case, are very prone to shifts over time and across languages. It also happens to consonants. For example, "Farbe" (German), "farve" (Danish), "färg" (Swedish) and "farge" (Norwegian), all meaning "color".

I don't get why everyone is making accounts for themselves on 83758349 different instances. I have more than enough interesting content right where I am.

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Twitter responded much more to my statuses than Facebook, but Mastodon is basically spoiling me rotten.

@CountZero My father's mother tongue was Finnish, my mother's was Sami. My father can speak some Sami. They were both fluent in Norwegian, having picked it up from school and Norwegian speakers in the area. My father also speaks German and English, meaning he's fluent in 5 languages.

@CountZero In my family, three languages are spoken: Norwegian, Sami and Finnish. The non-Germanic peoples of Norway faced oppression not unlike that of the Native Americans, but without the violent conflict. Even as late as the 1980s, being a Sami wasn't an asset, so my parents, having no desire to embrace their heritage, decided to not teach me their mother tongues.

@CountZero I was born here, but Norway's ethnic composition is more complex than it appears from the outside. There are at least 3 peoples, of Norse/Germanic, Finnish/Baltic and Sami/Lappish stock. Being from the northern part of the country, there are many people of Finnish and Sami heritage in my family tree, with a few people of Norse heritage mixed in there.