IS SCANIAN (SKÅNSKA) A LANGUAGE?
Sweden took the area called Skåneland (image above) from Denmark and forced the native population to become Swedish after Sweden won the second nothern war and in particular the Scanian war
Many rebellions took place but they all failed except one in Bornholm that managed to make the Island part of Denmark again in about 9 month and to this day Bornholm is still part of Denmark
Snapphane was the name given to the people in Skånskeland who fought with the Danes against Sweden's attempts to make Skåneland Swedish during the Scanian wars
Many rebellions took place but they all failed except one in Bornholm that managed to make the Island part of Denmark again in about 9 month and to this day Bornholm is still part of Denmark
Snapphane was the name given to the people in Skånskeland who fought with the Danes against Sweden's attempts to make Skåneland Swedish during the Scanian wars
The final verse mentions a "Rooster with a tounge of iron and a voice of lead".
In Danish, the "hammer" of a gun is called "hanen" (the rooster), probably due to its shape and the quick "pecking" motion it performs to ignite the powder.
Furthermore it produces a loud "snap" when the trigger is pulled thus the nickname for Scanian partisans, "Snaphane".
In other words the line is a clever pun encouraging partisans to keep fighting.
A mini series that is historically inaccurate exists called Snapphanar that you can watch below if you speak Swedish since it has no subtitles
In Danish, the "hammer" of a gun is called "hanen" (the rooster), probably due to its shape and the quick "pecking" motion it performs to ignite the powder.
Furthermore it produces a loud "snap" when the trigger is pulled thus the nickname for Scanian partisans, "Snaphane".
In other words the line is a clever pun encouraging partisans to keep fighting.
A mini series that is historically inaccurate exists called Snapphanar that you can watch below if you speak Swedish since it has no subtitles
A century later and 40% of the local Skåne population dead the Skånska language had disappeared and been replaced with what we have today that resembles more Swedish spoken by a Danish person with 20-100 words left behind from the Scanian language
"There has been active campaigning from local Scanian interest groups to promote Scanian as a separate language though this has been rejected by Swedish authorities.
Swedish linguists generally view Scanian as just one of many local or regional Swedish (or Scandinavian) dialects, some of which differ considerably from Standard Swedish but don't meet the criteria of a separate language
Ethnologue is a site that tries to list all the worlds languages but when it comes to Sweden it only lists ÖVDALIAN (ÄLVDALSKA, English: ELFDALIAN) as a language and SKÅNSKA (SCANIAN) was removed as a language in 2009
A request for reinstatement was submitted during the 2009 annual review process but rejected on the grounds of mutual intelligibility
Some people also tried to add Skånska as a language to Wikipedia but that also failed
Read more about it HERE
From the viewpoint of this site Skåneland is a Swedish dialect with about 100 words left behind from the Skånska language so yes it was once a language
Today the Scanian accent is only spoken in Skåne and not in Halland, Blekinge or Bornholm
About 13.5% of Sweden`s population live in Skåne as of 2018
Skånska has many accents depending on what part of Skåne the speaker is from
MILD SKÅNSKA
"There has been active campaigning from local Scanian interest groups to promote Scanian as a separate language though this has been rejected by Swedish authorities.
Swedish linguists generally view Scanian as just one of many local or regional Swedish (or Scandinavian) dialects, some of which differ considerably from Standard Swedish but don't meet the criteria of a separate language
Ethnologue is a site that tries to list all the worlds languages but when it comes to Sweden it only lists ÖVDALIAN (ÄLVDALSKA, English: ELFDALIAN) as a language and SKÅNSKA (SCANIAN) was removed as a language in 2009
A request for reinstatement was submitted during the 2009 annual review process but rejected on the grounds of mutual intelligibility
Some people also tried to add Skånska as a language to Wikipedia but that also failed
Read more about it HERE
From the viewpoint of this site Skåneland is a Swedish dialect with about 100 words left behind from the Skånska language so yes it was once a language
Today the Scanian accent is only spoken in Skåne and not in Halland, Blekinge or Bornholm
About 13.5% of Sweden`s population live in Skåne as of 2018
Skånska has many accents depending on what part of Skåne the speaker is from
MILD SKÅNSKA
This is what most Swedes outside of Skåne think when someone talks about Skånska
As seen in the link above from Wikipedia (THIS ONE) many arguments for and against so who knows in the future
