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Grammar. Texts. Dialects. Relationship to other languages. See also. Citations. Sources. External links. 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.
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 the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.
Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages. The standard division of Germanic is into three branches: East Germanic languages; North Germanic languages; West Germanic languages; They all descend from Proto-Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.
[2] The Germanic languages are the East Germanic languages (all extinct ), the North Germanic languages, and the West Germanic languages. When Proto-Germanic split from Proto-Indo-European, one of the main changes in the sounds in the language was Grimm’s law . References. ↑ König & van der Auwera (1994). ↑ Crystal 2006, pp. 424–426. Sources.
Category:North Germanic languages. Category. : North Germanic languages. For a list of words relating to North Germanic languages, see the North Germanic languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to North Germanic languages.
Pages in category "North Germanic languages". The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
