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East Scandinavian Languages

East Scandinavian languages form a branch of the group of Scandinavian languages. It starts in one of two branches of the Old Norse. Of this branch are differentiated, the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Old Danish , the Swedish old , and old gutnisk , which are the source of three modern languages, the Danish , the Swedish and gutnisk (even if the gutnisk is rarely used nowadays).

Because of the strong divergent evolution of Danish (including the pronunciation that has departed from the spelling), Swedish (and gutnisk) is nevertheless in many ways closer to Norwegian than Danish, Norwegian, although belongs, with the Icelandic and Faroese in the other branch of the Scandinavian languages, the Scandinavian West. Icelandic and Faroese are kept very close to the Old Norse, Norwegian and Swedish are nowadays the Scandinavian languages are most intercomprehensible orally.


Germanic languages modern
Northern Germanic languages
Western Faroese Icelandic Norwegian Nynorsk
Oriental Danish Norwegian bokml Swedish
West Germanic languages
Anglo-Frisian English Frisian ( Western , Eastern , Northern ) Scots
Lower Franconian Afrikaans Flemish Limburg Netherlands Zealanders
Low German Achterhooks Lower Saxon Netherlands Drents Low Saxon Eastern Frisia (in) Groningse Plautdietsch Sallaands Tweants Veluws Westphalian
High German
Middle German German Francique Mosel Rhine Francique Francique Rhine Lorraine Palatine Francique Ripuarian Top Saxon Klsch Luxembourg German Pennsylvania Silesian Wilamowicien
German Higher Alemn coloniero Alsatian Bavarian Cimbrian Mochena Swabian Swiss German
Yiddish Yiddish

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