ABSTRACT
The Scandinavian languages are the North Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia. Sometimes, and especially in the Scandinavian countries, the term ‘Scandinavian’ is used in a narrow sense to refer to the mutually comprehensible dialects and standard languages of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (including parts of Finland). The term ‘Nordic’ is then used in a wider sense to include Icelandic and Faroese. In this chapter ‘Scandinavian’ will be used in the wide sense.
