Abstract
This paper reports on an investigation of the mutual intelligibility of the three mainland Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian). These languages are so closely related that the speakers mostly use their own languages to communicate with each other. However, this kind of communication sometimes requires a great effort by the speakers (e.g. Maurud 1976, Bo 1978, Borestam 1987). Recently it has been investigated how well people understand each other in the Nordic countries (Delsing & Lundin Akesson 2005, henceforth referred to as the INS-investigation).1 In this investigation intelligibility was assessed as well as contact and attitude, but like in all previous investigations little attention was paid to linguistic distances between the languages when explaining the results. In the present investigation, a limited set of the INS-results was analyzed and extra material was added with the aim of gaining insight into the role of linguistic and extra-linguistic variables for the mutual intelligibility between speakers of the three Scandinavian languages.
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