(the north germanic languages make up 1 of the 3 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’)
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(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 3 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 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 3 scandinavian countries and stressing their common heritage)
(the term “north germanic languages” is used in ‘comparative linguistics’, whereas the term “scandinavian languages” appears in studies of the ‘modern standard languages’ and the ‘dialect continuum’ of ‘scandinavia’)
(approximately 20 million people in the ‘nordic countries’ have a ‘scandinavian language’ as their ‘native language’, including an approximately 5% minority in ‘finland’)
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(languages belonging to the ‘north germanic language tree’ are spoken commonly on ‘greenland’ and, to a lesser extent, by immigrants in ‘north america’)
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