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    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. Dec 7, 2022 · Is Scandinavian & Nordic Different? Scandinavia in the modern sense usually refers to the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The larger northern European region made up of the Scandinavian countries as well as Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Greenland is called the Nordics.

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  4. Languages. Main contributor: Itamar Toussia Cohen. Scandinavian ethnicity - distribution by country. Scandinavians are the inhabitants of the Scandinavian Peninsula in the northwestern tip of Europe, consisting of modern Norway and Sweden, with the addition of Denmark and Iceland.

  5. 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.

  6. Summary. The word ‘Scandinavia’ first occurs in the Naturalis historia of Pliny the Elder (d. AD 79), in the form of Scadinavia or Scatinavia. In later manuscripts of this work an n was added in the first syllable and the name became Scandinavia, as it still is. Pliny used the name to denote what he believed to be a large island in the Baltic.

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