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On this page, you will find all content related to the languages in the Nordic countries.
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.
A member of the Finno-Ugric language group and thus related to Finnish, Sami consists of three branches, sufficiently different from each other to be…
Linguistic minorities have existed for centuries, such as the Finns and Sami in Sweden. Since 1960s minority languages have often been associated with…
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