Encyclopedia > List of East Scandinavian languages
The East Scandinavian languages (or Danish-Swedish) include some 8 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about many people in Europe; this language family is a part of the North Germanic language family. This list contains subgroups and individual languages.
Languages mutually intelligible but not genetically related may be creoles and parent languages, or geographically adjacent variants of two unrelated languages.
However, intelligibility among languages can vary between individuals or groups within a language population, according to their knowledge of various registers and vocabulary in their own language, their interest in or familiarity with other cultures, psycho-cognitive traits, and other factors.
The Frisian language is the closest living cousin to English (after Scots), both being descended from the Anglo-Frisian group, but the two tongues are not mutually intelligible.
The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family.
It is the smallest official language of the EU in terms of speakers.
Three minor source languages for European borrowings are Arabic (esp. in mathematics and science, foreign plants and fruits), Italian (esp. in arts, esp. from the 15th to the 17th c.), German (esp. in arts, education, mining, trading from the 12th to the 20th c.
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