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Bornholmsk

Bornholmsk proper noun: a language or Danish dialect spoken on the Baltic island of Bornholm.

Proper noun

Bornholmsk

  1. A language or Danish dialect spoken on the Baltic island of Bornholm.
    • Bornholmers speak a language, Bornholmsk, that differs both from standard Danish and Swedish; its grammatical features such as triple genders are similar to those in Norwegian or Icelandic and its phonetic patterns similar to south-Swedish Scanian.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 87

Origin of Bornholmsk

Borrowed from Danish bornholmsk.

Questions about Bornholmsk

What does Bornholmsk mean?
Bornholmsk means a language or Danish dialect spoken on the Baltic island of Bornholm.
What part of speech is Bornholmsk?
Bornholmsk is a proper noun.

Words near Bornholmsk in the dictionary

  1. bornhardt
  2. bornhardtite
  3. bornhardts
  4. Bornholm
  5. Bornholm disease
  6. Bornholmsk
  7. Bornian
  8. bornin
  9. borning
  10. bornite
  11. bornites

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