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On this page, you will find all content related to the languages in the Nordic countries.
Ingria is the historic name for the isthmus between the Baltic Sea and Lake Ladoga, connecting modern-day Finland with modern-day Estonia. Today, this…
In this short video, Lill Tove Fredriksen, Associate Professor in Sámi Literature at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, discusses the Sámi language…
Rinkebysvenska or Rinkeby Swedish is a contemporary urban vernacular (CUV) which has developed in multi-ethnic urban areas of Sweden including a…
The scientific study of language form and meaning, including the specialised branch of runology, has been a prominent academic pursuit in the Nordics…
Yoik is the native Sami musical expression which is reminiscent of singing. It has layers of meaning as it holds identity markers and was…
Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, as a result of its more than 600-years as part of the Kingdom of Sweden (until 1809). While…
From a global point of view, few people speak the Nordic languages. Translation is therefore an everyday necessity for many Nordic people who do…
There has been much more official involvement with the Nordic languages than with English. That is true even of the well-established Danish, Icelandic…
A descendant of Old Norse, Faroese has had to contend with Danish but remains the principal language spoken and written in the Faroe Islands.
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