Editing Languages of Europe (section)

====North Germanic (Scandinavian)====
The ''[[North Germanic languages]]'' are spoken in [[Nordic countries]] and include 
[[Swedish language|Swedish]] ([[Sweden]] and parts of [[Finland]]), 
[[Danish language|Danish]] ([[Denmark]]), 
[[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] ([[Norway]]), 
[[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] ([[Iceland]]),
[[Faroese language|Faroese]] ([[Faroe Islands]]), 
and [[Elfdalian]] (in a small part of central Sweden).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Louden |first1=Mark L. |title=The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics |date=2020 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-42186-7 |pages=807–832 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108378291.035 |chapter=Minority Germanic Languages}}</ref>

English has a long history of contact with Scandinavian languages, given the immigration of Scandinavians early in the history of Britain, and shares various features with the Scandinavian languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm|title=Linguist makes sensational claim: English is a Scandinavian language|website=ScienceDaily|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> Even so, especially Dutch and Swedish, but also Danish and Norwegian, have strong vocabulary connections to the [[German language]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-21 |title=Linguistic variety in the Nordics |url=https://nordics.info/show/artikel/linguistic-variety-in-the-nordic-region |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=nordics.info |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gooskens |first1=Charlotte |last2=Kürschner |first2=Sebastian |last3=Heuven |first3=Vincent J. van |date=August 4, 2021 |title=The role of loanwords in the intelligibility of written Danish among Swedes |journal=[[Nordic Journal of Linguistics]] |language=en |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=4–29 |doi=10.1017/S0332586521000111 |issn=0332-5865|doi-access=free |hdl=1887/3205273 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gooskens |first1=Charlotte |last2=van Heuven |first2=Vincent J. |last3=Golubović |first3=Jelena |last4=Schüppert |first4=Anja |last5=Swarte |first5=Femke |last6=Voigt |first6=Stefanie |date=2018-04-03 |title=Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe |journal=International Journal of Multilingualism |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=169–193 |doi=10.1080/14790718.2017.1350185 |issn=1479-0718|doi-access=free |hdl=1887/79190 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>