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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ScandinaviaScandinavia - Wikipedia

    In the ethnic or cultural sense the term "Scandinavian" traditionally refers to speakers of Scandinavian languages, who are mainly descendants of the peoples historically known as Norsemen, but also to some extent of immigrants and others who have been assimilated into that culture and language.

  2. Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are Americans of Scandinavian and/or Nordic ancestry, including Danish Americans (estimate: 1,453,897), Faroese Americans, Finnish Americans (estimate: 653,222 [3] ), Greenlandic Americans, Icelandic Americans (estimate: 49,442 [4] ), Norwegian Americans (estimate: 4,602,337), and Swedish Americans (estimate: 4,...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ScandinavianScandinavian - Wikipedia

    Scandinavians or North Germanic peoples, the most common name for modern North Germanic peoples. Scandinavians, any citizen of the countries of Scandinavia. Scandinavians, ethnic groups originating in Scandinavia, irrespective of ethnolinguistic affiliation.

  5. The Culture of Scandinavia encompasses the cultures of the Scandinavia region Northern Europe including Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and may also include the Nordic countries Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. National cultures within Scandinavia include: Culture of Sweden. Culture of Norway. Culture of Denmark.

  6. Mar 28, 2008 · Summary. The linguistic prehistory of Scandinavia. For as far back as we can see, the languages of Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) have been either of Indo-European or Finno-Ugrian origin. At what point these types of speech first established themselves in the region is not wholly clear.