Languages of Scandinavia - Seven Sisters of the North

This work narrates the shared history of the seven languages of Scandinavia and their development from earliest times to the present: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, and Sami. These "seven sisters of the north" have coexisted in Scandinavia for millennia but come from two distinct language families: two of them are Finno-Ugric and five Germanic. Traditionally, studies of the linguistic history have considered the two families separately because of their ultimate differing origins. However, a crisscrossing of names, territories, and even to some extent language genetics in the North through millennia has created a body of shared culture, experience, and linguistic influence that is illuminated when these seven languages are told as a singular story, an approach that has been called language contact. This book breaks new ground by considering them together.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth H. Sanders, Sanders Ruth H.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780226493893
• ISBN: 978-0-226-49389-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other), Language: reference & general, Historical and comparative linguistics, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries