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2 days ago · Swedish (svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countries overall.
1 day ago · Old Norse, Old Nordic, [1] or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia and the ...
4 days ago · Virtual. Instructor: Ingela Eilert Haaland. Cost: $45 ($35 ASI member) Register. Share this Event. Explore the evolution of Swedish in a three-part lecture series by Ingela Haaland. Discover its influences, grammar changes, and modern trends.
4 days ago · Swedish. Swedish is often considered particularly melodic and soft, making it frequently cited as one of the most beautiful Scandinavian languages. Countries Spoken: Sweden, Finland. Number of Speakers: About 10 million. In other topics. Position 6 in the ranking of the most difficult Germanic language.
2 days ago · It's not spoken anymore. West Germanic Frisian is alive and well and spoken as a minority language in the Frisian islands. 3. The names of the days of the week in Swedish and English share the same linguistic roots in most cases. For example, the Swedish word "onsdag" is "Oden's day"; "Wednesday" means the same.
3 days ago · All others, including Burgundian and Vandalic, are known, if at all, only from proper names that survived in historical accounts, and from loanwords in other, mainly Romance, languages. As a Germanic language, Gothic is a part of the Indo-European language family. It is the earliest Germanic language that is attested in any sizable texts, but ...
4 days ago · During Middle High German times (after 1100), a standard language based on the Upper German dialects (Alemannic and Bavarian) in the southernmost part of the German speech area began to arise. Middle High German was the language of an extensive literature that includes the early 13th-century epic Nibelungenlied.
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