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Michael P. Barnes, Professor emeritus of Scandinavian Studies at UCL. Specialisations: history of the Scandinavian languages, comparative Scandinavian linguistics, Faroese, runes and runic inscriptions.
There has been much more official involvement with the Nordic languages than with English. That is true even of the well-established Danish, Icelandic and Swedish standards. Each language exists under the watchful eye of a language ‘committee’, ‘board’ or ‘council’, for the most part state-sponsored, semi-autonomous bodies. A wide spectrum of interested parties participates, including academics, schoolteachers, writers, journalists and terminological experts.