Neil Harris wrote:
I was told by a Norwegian that the Scandanavian languages are all so closely
Perhaps the nearest equivalent might be "Scots" vs. "English".
If I speak Swedish in the streets of Oslo, I will make myself understood but the locals will treat me as a speaker of a foreign language. With English (British or American) in the streets of Glasgow, I'm not a foreign speaker. Therefore I think Scots would be analogous to Nynorsk, and Nynorsk now has its own Wikipedia (nn.wikipedia.org with 151 articles).
Lars Aronsson.