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Definition of Scandinavian language
1. Noun. The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland.
Generic synonyms: Germanic, Germanic Language
Specialized synonyms: Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Faeroese, Faroese
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scandinavian Language
Literary usage of Scandinavian language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"... Scandinavian elements than the English of the periods, when the Scandinavian
language was still alive and looked upon by the English as a foreign one. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"As early as the beginning of the so-called later Iron Age (about 700 AD) the
primitive Scandinavian ' language had undergone a considerable transformation, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"As early as the beginning of the so called later Iron Age (about 700 AD) the
primitive Scandinavian language had undergone a considerable transformation, ..."
4. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"... Scandinavian elements than the English of the periods, when the Scandinavian
language was still alive and looked upon by the English as a foreign one. ..."
5. A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities: Together with a by George Tobias Flom (1907)
"The Scandinavian departmental library numbers about 1700 volumes, representing
the whole field of Scandinavian language and literature. ..."
6. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer, Frédéric Guillaume Bergmann (1853)
"selves in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Scandinavians, we ought also to give to
the idiom which they spoke the name of Scandinavian language. ..."
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