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22 hours ago · The largest North Germanic languages are Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, which are in part mutually intelligible and have a combined total of about 20 million native speakers in the Nordic countries and an additional five million second language speakers; since the Middle Ages, however, these languages have been strongly influenced by Middle ...
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Jun 27, 2024 · Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic , including English , German , and Netherlandic ( Dutch ); North Germanic, including Danish , Swedish , Icelandic , Norwegian , and Faroese ; and East Germanic , now extinct, comprising only Gothic and ...
4 days ago · Today Old Norse has developed into the modern North Germanic languages Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and other North Germanic varieties of which Norwegian, Danish and Swedish retain considerable mutual intelligibility while Icelandic remains the closest to Old Norse.
Jun 27, 2024 · The fragmentation of Northwest Germanic can be dated roughly to the period of the 3rd–6th centuries with the development of three major dialect divisions: in Scandinavia, North Germanic; in Jutland and the northwest of Germany, North Sea Germanic; and in central Germany, South Germanic.
3 days ago · Danish (/ ˈ d eɪ n ɪ ʃ / ⓘ, DAY-nish; endonym: dansk pronounced ⓘ, dansk sprog [ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ]) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
Jun 10, 2024 · Norwegian language, North Germanic language of the West Scandinavian branch, existing in two distinct and rival norms—Bokmål (also called Dano-Norwegian, or Riksmål) and New Norwegian (Nynorsk). Old Norwegian writing traditions gradually died out in the 15th century after the union of Norway with.
Jun 19, 2024 · The North Germanic languages are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. West Germanic includes English, German, Dutch, and Frisian. Two of these are paired with a sister language that is also spoken by significant numbers: Dutch with Afrikaans, and German with Yiddish.
