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  1. 2 days ago · Use of the Norwegian language in the United States was at its peak between 1900 and World War I, then declined in the 1920s and 1930s. Over one million Americans spoke Norwegian as their primary language from 1900 to World War I, and more than 3,000 Lutheran churches in the Upper Midwest used Norwegian as their sole language.

  2. 2 days ago · Classification. Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages. In the established classification, it belongs to the East Scandinavian languages, together with Danish, separating it from the West Scandinavian languages, consisting of Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian.

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  4. 2 days ago · ISBN 9783642313882. Norwegian is the common spoken and written language in Norway and is the native language of the vast majority of the Norwegian population (more than 90%) and has about 4,320,000 speakers at present. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (24 May 2022).

  5. May 14, 2024 · Swedish language, the official language of Sweden and, with Finnish, one of the two national languages of Finland. Swedish belongs to the East Scandinavian group of North Germanic languages. Until World War II, it was also spoken in parts of Estonia and Latvia. Swedish was spoken by about eight

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  6. May 14, 2024 · Danish language, the official language of Denmark, spoken there by more than five million people. It is also spoken in a few communities south of the German border; it is taught in the schools of the Faroe Islands, of Iceland, and of Greenland. Danish belongs to the East Scandinavian branch of North Germanic languages.

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  7. 5 days ago · SCAND 513 Methods in Scandinavian Studies (5, max. 10) Emphasis on cultural-studies approaches to cinema, folklore, language, literature, politics, and society. Investigates methods of Scandinavian Studies by exploring the critical theory of various sub-disciplines and examples of current scholarship. Offered: AWSp.

  8. May 21, 2024 · Mutual intelligibility: Generally, speakers of the three largest Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) can read each other’s languages without great difficulty. The primary obstacles to mutual comprehension are differences in pronunciation.

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