Scandinavian languages

Adam Hyllested adahyl at cphling.dk
Wed Apr 14 16:15:51 UTC 1999


Uh-oh. Nemesis made my Nordic family tree below look a bit surrealistic.
What I meant was:

WEST NORDIC:
Old Norse (+) > Icelandic, Faroese, Norn (+), and Norwegian (Nynorsk)
EAST NORDIC:
*Old East Nordic (+) > Swedish, Gutnish (+), Danish, and Norwegian (Bokmål)

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Adam Hyllested wrote:

> Then take a glance at my tree (upside-down).

>           NORDIC LANGUAGES
> WEST NORDIC                  EAST NORDIC
>             Old Norse (+)                *Old East Nordic (+)
>   Icelandic                           Swedish
>     Faroese                Gutnish (+)
>       Norn (+)              Danish
>         Norwegian          Norwegian    (Nynorsk)        (Bokmål)



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