Nordic (Noun)
Meaning
The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Nordic languages are a branch of the Germanic languages spoken in Northern Europe.
- Old Norse is the ancestor of the modern Nordic languages such as Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish.
- The Nordic languages are mutually intelligible to a certain extent, especially in their written forms.
- Icelandic is a North Germanic language and the closest living language to Old Norse, the ancestor of the Nordic languages.
- The Nordic languages have many cognates with English, reflecting their shared Germanic roots.