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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. The language group is sometimes referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Swedish and Norwegian scholars and laypeople. In Scandinavia, the term Scandinavian languages refers specifically to the mutually intelligible languages of the three Scandinavian countries and is thus used in a more narrow sense as a subset of the Nordic languages, leaving aside the insular subset of Faroese and Icelandic (and certainly the unrelated Finnish and Sami languages). The term Scandinavian arose in the 18th century as a result of the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement, referring to the people, cultures, and languages of the three Scandinavian countries and stressing their common heritage.
The term "North Germanic languages" is used in genetic linguistics, whereas the term "Scandinavian languages" appears in studies of the modern standard languages and the dialect continuum of Scandinavia.
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Central Europe, Western and Northern Europe.
The West Germanic branch includes the two most widely spoken Germanic languages: English, with approximately 360–400 million native speakers, and German, with over 100 million native speakers. Other major West Germanic languages are Dutch with 23 million speakers,Low German with approximately 5 million in Germany and 1.7 million in the Netherlands, and Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch, with over 7.2 million.
The main North Germanic languages are Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese, which have a combined total of about 20 million speakers.
The East Germanic branch included Gothic, Burgundian, and Vandalic, all of which are now extinct. The last to die off was Crimean Gothic, spoken in the late 18th century in some isolated areas of Crimea.
The SIL Ethnologue lists 48 different living Germanic languages, of which 42 belong to the Western branch, and 6 to the Northern branch. The total number of Germanic languages through history is unknown, as some of them—especially East Germanic languages—disappeared during or shortly after the Migration Period.
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(UPDATED VIDEO) This video is about the North Germanic languages of Scandinavia and the other Nordic nations. The original featured some poorly done sample sentences, so this version features native speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish.** I made a few other improvements to the picture quality, and some graphics and text. *** Thanks to Yazmina Kara, Christian Fredlev Sand, and Jens Aksel Takle for their sample sentences and assistance. Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus Special thanks to: Brandon Gonzalez, Ruben Sanchez, BJ Peter DeLaCruz, Michael Cuomo, Eric Garland, Brian Michalowski, Sebastian Langshaw, Yixin Alfred Wang, Vadim Sobolev, Raymond Thomas, Simon Blanchet, Ryan Marquardt, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ul...
A new version of this video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewqX_1dBAlA ► Learn Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, or Icelandic with a native speaker today: http://go.italki.com/1Ojye8x (italki voucher) This video is all about the North Germanic languages of Scandinavia and the other Nordic nations. *** Lots of people are commenting about the example sentences with audio. To answer your questions, no the sentences are not from Google Translate. I made a request on the LangFocus Facebook page for native speakers to give me a couple sentences with audio, but no native speakers sent me audio. I had one volunteer who was not a native speaker, but studies Norwegian and Swedish. She helped me by supplying those sentences. I know they`re not perfect, but don`t be too critical, plea...
Sample of what the North Germanic languages sounds like. North Germanic, also known as Scandinavian, are the languages spoken by the Scandinavian people, decandents of the Vikings. North Germanic forms the northern branch of the Germanic languages. Featured is Swedish (Svenska), Finland Swedish (Finlandssvenska), Norwegian (Norsk), West Norwegian (Vestlandsk), Danish (Dansk), Icelandic (Ìslenska), Faroese (Føroysk), Elfdalian (Övdalska) and Westrobothnian (Bondska)
God dag! #LanguageComparison is a project mainly created for comparing languages belonging to the same language family. - Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway. - Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden. Which one did you like more, Swedish or Norwegian? You could comment below! :) Spoken Norwegian: subscribe to https://www.youtube.com/user/stinehofstad Spoken Swedish: Alexander Skarsgård's Interview Norwegian Music: Pumba - Hvor Jeg Kommer Ifra Swedish Music: MOVITS! - Fel Del Av Gården Thanks for your attention!
How do the different Germanic languages sound? Watch this video to find out!
Today I want compare swedish, danish and norwegian with each other :) !!
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. The language group is sometimes referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Swedish and Norwegian scholars and laypeople. In Scandinavia, the term Scandinavian languages refers specifically to the mutually intelligible languages of the three Scandinavian countries and is thus used in a more narrow sense as a subset of the Nordic languages, leaving aside the insular subset of Faroese and Icelandic. The term Scandinavian arose in the 18th century as a result of the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement, referri...
It's amazing how close these three languages are. Also, they truly fit better to the setting of this movie... as the setting and the original story of the snow queen is Scandinavian! I had a difficult time finding a norwegian version that had a proper sound quality, but hopefully you'll survive. Hopefully you'll also survive some of the small spelling errors. I tried to translate the languages to English, but not entirely correctly. (It has to be understandable in English...) Also, I'm sorry if people from Finland or Iceland are offended by not being in this video, but historically Scandinavia consisted of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. (Though, I guess Finland is nicely represented in 'Frozen' when saunas are mentioned. I'll have to make a Nordic multilanguage with Finland and Iceland as w...
Learn the Scandinavian languages together. Basic phrases in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. Recordings by native speakers from southern Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Tack / takk / tak to Krystallia, Celine, Anders and Bjørn! Learn basic phrases in Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese) here: https://youtu.be/jjx9vjvTJiI For more multilingual learning resources, please visit http://ielanguages.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/ielanguages Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ielanguages Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Ielanguagescom Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/ielanguages/ Tumblr: http://ielanguages.tumblr.com
Learn the Scandinavian languages together. Subject pronouns in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. Recordings by native speakers from southern Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Tack / takk / tak to Krystallia, Celine, and Anders! Learn basic phrases in these three Scandinavian languages: https://youtu.be/isDcz-5fAF0 For more multilingual learning resources, please visit http://ielanguages.com/scandinavian.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/ielanguages Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ielanguages Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Ielanguagescom Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/ielanguages/ Tumblr: http://ielanguages.tumblr.com
(UPDATED VIDEO) This video is about the North Germanic languages of Scandinavia and the other Nordic nations. The original featured some poorly done sample sentences, so this version features native speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish.** I made a few other improvements to the picture quality, and some graphics and text. *** Thanks to Yazmina Kara, Christian Fredlev Sand, and Jens Aksel Takle for their sample sentences and assistance. Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus Special thanks to: Brandon Gonzalez, Ruben Sanchez, BJ Peter DeLaCruz, Michael Cuomo, Eric Garland, Brian Michalowski, Sebastian Langshaw, Yixin Alfred Wang, Vadim Sobolev, Raymond Thomas, Simon Blanchet, Ryan Marquardt, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ul...
A new version of this video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewqX_1dBAlA ► Learn Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, or Icelandic with a native speaker today: http://go.italki.com/1Ojye8x (italki voucher) This video is all about the North Germanic languages of Scandinavia and the other Nordic nations. *** Lots of people are commenting about the example sentences with audio. To answer your questions, no the sentences are not from Google Translate. I made a request on the LangFocus Facebook page for native speakers to give me a couple sentences with audio, but no native speakers sent me audio. I had one volunteer who was not a native speaker, but studies Norwegian and Swedish. She helped me by supplying those sentences. I know they`re not perfect, but don`t be too critical, plea...
Sample of what the North Germanic languages sounds like. North Germanic, also known as Scandinavian, are the languages spoken by the Scandinavian people, decandents of the Vikings. North Germanic forms the northern branch of the Germanic languages. Featured is Swedish (Svenska), Finland Swedish (Finlandssvenska), Norwegian (Norsk), West Norwegian (Vestlandsk), Danish (Dansk), Icelandic (Ìslenska), Faroese (Føroysk), Elfdalian (Övdalska) and Westrobothnian (Bondska)
God dag! #LanguageComparison is a project mainly created for comparing languages belonging to the same language family. - Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway. - Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden. Which one did you like more, Swedish or Norwegian? You could comment below! :) Spoken Norwegian: subscribe to https://www.youtube.com/user/stinehofstad Spoken Swedish: Alexander Skarsgård's Interview Norwegian Music: Pumba - Hvor Jeg Kommer Ifra Swedish Music: MOVITS! - Fel Del Av Gården Thanks for your attention!
How do the different Germanic languages sound? Watch this video to find out!
Today I want compare swedish, danish and norwegian with each other :) !!
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. The language group is sometimes referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Swedish and Norwegian scholars and laypeople. In Scandinavia, the term Scandinavian languages refers specifically to the mutually intelligible languages of the three Scandinavian countries and is thus used in a more narrow sense as a subset of the Nordic languages, leaving aside the insular subset of Faroese and Icelandic. The term Scandinavian arose in the 18th century as a result of the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement, referri...
It's amazing how close these three languages are. Also, they truly fit better to the setting of this movie... as the setting and the original story of the snow queen is Scandinavian! I had a difficult time finding a norwegian version that had a proper sound quality, but hopefully you'll survive. Hopefully you'll also survive some of the small spelling errors. I tried to translate the languages to English, but not entirely correctly. (It has to be understandable in English...) Also, I'm sorry if people from Finland or Iceland are offended by not being in this video, but historically Scandinavia consisted of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. (Though, I guess Finland is nicely represented in 'Frozen' when saunas are mentioned. I'll have to make a Nordic multilanguage with Finland and Iceland as w...
Learn the Scandinavian languages together. Basic phrases in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. Recordings by native speakers from southern Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Tack / takk / tak to Krystallia, Celine, Anders and Bjørn! Learn basic phrases in Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese) here: https://youtu.be/jjx9vjvTJiI For more multilingual learning resources, please visit http://ielanguages.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/ielanguages Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ielanguages Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Ielanguagescom Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/ielanguages/ Tumblr: http://ielanguages.tumblr.com
Learn the Scandinavian languages together. Subject pronouns in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. Recordings by native speakers from southern Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Tack / takk / tak to Krystallia, Celine, and Anders! Learn basic phrases in these three Scandinavian languages: https://youtu.be/isDcz-5fAF0 For more multilingual learning resources, please visit http://ielanguages.com/scandinavian.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/ielanguages Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ielanguages Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Ielanguagescom Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/ielanguages/ Tumblr: http://ielanguages.tumblr.com
On April 21, we held a Faculty Confab Roundtable with Dr. Nelson Goering, Dr. Carl Anderson, Dr. Melissa Mayus, and Dr. Paul Peterson. The roundtable participants explored All Things Norse, including: - Adaptations of Norse stories in modern literature (timely, with Gaiman’s recent Norse Mythology) - The Norse influence on English (including the recent exciting idea that English is a North Germanic language) - The variety of forms and topics in Norse poetry - The challenges particular to teaching Norse For more information, check us out at: http://signumuniversity.org/
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The Republic of Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of 332,529 and an area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi), making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly, with most of the archipelago ha...
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Iceland (Listeni/ˈaɪslənd/; Icelandic: Ísland pronounced: [ˈistlant]), is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of 332,529 and an area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi), making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps ...
The Republic of Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of 332,529 and an area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi), making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly, with most of the archipelago ha...