{"id":14130,"date":"2017-06-17T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2017-06-17T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T12:25:20","slug":"wandering-prattlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14130","title":{"rendered":"Wandering prattlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been brought to my attention that in Swedish the most common way to say ‘speak’, at least in Stockholm, is pratar<\/strong>, and that few people use talar<\/strong> anymore.<\/p>\n

\u00c4r detta sant? Is this true?<\/p>\n

The Duolingo course I’m studying Swedish with uses talar<\/strong>, – pratar<\/strong> has not come up yet.<\/p>\n

According to Witionary<\/a>, Pratar<\/strong> is the present tense form of the verb prata<\/em> (to talk, speak), and comes from the Low German praten<\/em> (to talk), from the Proto-Germanic *prattuz<\/em> (idle or boastful talk, deceit), from the Proto-Indo-European *brodno-<\/em> (to wander, rove). The English word prattle<\/strong> (to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble) comes from the same root.<\/p>\n

Talar<\/strong><\/a> is the present tense form of the verb tala<\/em> (to speak; to utter words; to tell; to talk; to make a speech) from the Old Norse tala<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic *tal\u014d<\/em> (calculation, number), from the Proto-Indo-European *del-<\/em> (to reckon, count).<\/p>\n

Other Swedish words related to speech and language include:<\/p>\n

– tal = speech
\n– spr\u00e5k = language
\n– spr\u00e5ka = to speak
\n– snacka = to talk, speak (coll.); to boast emptily (slang); to reveal secrets
\n– s\u00e4ga = to say, to tell; to utter words
\n– pladdra = to prattle
\n– skrika = to scream, to yell, to shout
\n– viska = to whisper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been brought to my attention that in Swedish the most common way to say ‘speak’, at least in Stockholm, is pratar, and that few people use talar anymore. \u00c4r detta sant? Is this true? The Duolingo course I’m studying Swedish with uses talar, – pratar has not come up yet. According to Witionary, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,36,45,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-old-norse","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}