However, because of several hundred years of sometimes quite intense rivalry between Denmark and Sweden, including a long series of wars from the 16th to 18th centuries, and the nationalist ideas that emerged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the languages have separate orthographies, dictionaries, grammars, and regulatory bodies.
Así mesmo, e a causa de diversos séculos de rivalidade, ás veces bastante intensa, entre Suecia e Dinamarca, incluíndo unha longa serie de guerras nos séculos XVI e XVII, e das ideas nacionalistas que apareceron a finais do século XIX e princios do século XX, as diferentes linguas teñen ortografía, dicionarios, gramáticas e órgaos reguladores diferentes.