I get it. My parents/hometown is a days travel away so I only visit ~two times a year. It’s hard to stay in touch with all your old friends when you rarely see them. If you’re just an hour away it’s much easier to keep touch with your old circle.

Seems reasonable if you don’t move to another city

I’m sure Norway has a higher density of various dialects to the factors you mentioned, but Maghreb is vastly greater in size, so you’d think there would be more than 5 dialects. It’s fascinating if there aren’t.

I’ll never forget the first time I went on holiday to Greece and jumped into the water. Saltiest water I’ve ever felt, ended up just swimming in the pool instead. Much better water up here in the north, even if it’s a bit cold.

That’s possible, but that doesn’t really answer my question which was if the dialect is the same/similar for each group internally on the map, or just a very rough generalisation. The map covers some incredible distances so it would surprise me if they managed to keep a consistent language across it all that space. Didn’t mean to dunk on the map if that’s how you interpreted it.

Those are surprisingly large zones, I would have thought it would be much more fractured. Is it just a rough generalisation, or would someone in Mauritania speak similar to someone in Algeria?

Even this map of Norway doesn’t really represent all the dialects in our tiny country.

“EU’s largest national park is in South America” is a fun fact.

Norwegian dykes and canals

I’m confused, how is Norway connected to those kind of constructions?

The iphone

Microsoft’s new phone were supposed to spell the end for it.

Ah yes, the country Scandinavia