Editing Odda (section)

===Dialect===
[[File:Lake Votna Hordaland Norway 3015 6 7 fused.jpg|thumb|right|Lake Votna]]
Odda grew up around this smelter in the early-twentieth century, drawing migrants from different parts of Norway. As a result, there developed a new dialect, a mixture of that spoken in the home regions of the migrants - a phenomenon termed by linguists "a [[Koiné language]]". The town of Odda and neighboring village of [[Tyssedal]] - which arose in the same time and socio-economic circumstances as those of Odda - provided valuable insights to linguists studying this phenomenon. The researcher [[Paul Kerswill]] conducted an intensive study of the Norwegian spoken in the two communities, relating them to very different geographical origins: The workers in Odda came predominantly (86%) from western Norway. In Tyssedal only about one third came from western Norway; one third came from eastern Norway; and the rest from other parts of the country. The dialects that evolved in these two communities were radically different from each other, though spoken at a short [[geographical distance]] from each other.