Michael P. Barnes

Michael P. Barnes, Professor emeritus of Scandinavian Studies at UCL. Specialisations: history of the Scandinavian languages, comparative Scandinavian linguistics, Faroese, runes and runic inscriptions.

Contributions to nordics.info

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21 February 2019 - Michael P. Barnes

There has been much more official involvement with the Nordic languages than with English. That is true even of the well-established Danish, Icelandic…

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21 February 2019 - Michael P. Barnes

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In Denmark the principal language is Danish, with about 5,750,000 speakers (in 2018), but varieties of German are spoken in…

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Nicola Anne Witcombe

Michael P. Barnes

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Official bodies overseeing the Nordic languages

Linguistic variety in the Nordics

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