If you specifically want either Danish or Swedish, I’d say Swedish

Seriously, Danish is rough to understand for other Scandinavians even. Spoken Danish, that is. They’re all quite similar when written.

Icelandic being a huge exception of course. Its isolation afforded it extremely conservative grammar and pronunciation.

People learning Old Norse are told to just pronounce it like Icelandic

@Evan I'm actually curious what sources you read. You can DM them if you wanna interrupt their language conversation.

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@Jacob makes sense. I'd be careful still. I like to find personal records from soldiers or people specifically from the region of interest to find more about something in-depth. Old soldier reports about what they saw in Ukraine during the Russian invasion is heart wrenching

My grandma was actually a teenager / young adult during World War II so I've heard some personal accounts

@Jacob Oh here is the Soviet consensus during the holodomor btw

dude

literally no one is denying that people died during that period

What does that mean?

it means nothing lmao

just that people died during the Holodomor

which literally no one here is denying

@ophiuchus Is Norwegian easier?

@Jacob so I am assuming that the Soviets are the left side of the graph?

the graph doesn't say which side is what

wait aren't the two sides on these pyramids usually representative of gender?

Yes

That's what I thought ^^

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Okay so wamen on the left?

sorry right

its late here

I think so

wait couldn't this entire graph be explained by World War II?

Yeah this seems to explain very little

other than what we already know

You see a serious dip around late 30s to early 40s which explains combat deaths

It's the Ukrainian Soviet consensus, it translates "Sexual - age pyramid of the population of Ukraine in 1959"

Thank you

14 years after the war

And then a solid boom around the early 20s explaining the Soviet equivalent of the baby boomers

ya

I'm not sure what this really adds

The pyramid shape means that there were high birth rates, bit short life expectancy (where the child mortalities could be explained) and slow growth rates

the life expectancy was like 30 in the Russian Empire

this is actually a pretty big improvement

@Jacob That's usually skewed by the infant mortality rate. In Ancient Rome, people who survived past the age of 10 would live to 60 or so.

that's a good point