Proto-Norse was an Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia that is thought to have evolved as a northern dialect of Proto-Germanic in the first centuries CE. It is the earliest stage of a ...
Finland has two national languages, Finnish and Swedish. Most of the approximately 5.5 million inhabitants speak Finnish as their mother tongue, while Swedish is spoken as a first language by just ...
In the Nordic countries, there are an estimated 30,000 speakers of Sami languages in total. An estimated 25,000 people speak North Sami, while Pite Sami is spoken by an estimated 30 people.