Meanwhile, it is highly debatable whether Swedish and Norwegian fulfil a purely linguistic definition of two languages, rather than two dialect clusters.
(Politically and sociologically, they are quite distinct.)
In other words, there are many different kinds of Sámi, but it's questionable whether there is more than one kind of Norwegian/Swedish-speaker.
#language
Martin Rundkvist
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