North Germanic Language (Noun)
Meaning
The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The North Germanic languages are a branch of the Germanic languages spoken in Northern Europe, primarily in Scandinavia and Iceland.
- As a group of languages in the North Germanic language family, the dialects of Old Norse are widely studied by scholars.
- The modern North Germanic languages include Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, and Faroese.
- Old Norse is the most well-documented North Germanic language of the Viking Age, with a vast amount of written records still surviving today.
- While the North Germanic languages are mutually unintelligible to a certain extent, they share many cognates and grammatical similarities.