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	TEUTONIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on TEUTONIC LANGUAGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		languages seem originally to have had three numbers and eight cases, though it is by no means clear that each of the latter had a distinct form in every class of stems.
		The Gothic and Scandinavian languages have one or two characteristics in common, the most important of which is the treatment of intervocalic j and w in a number of words.
		The early divergence of the eastern languages in general from those of the north and west is perhaps to be ascribed in part to the great extension southwards of the territories of the eastern tribes in the 3rd and 4th centuries.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TEUTONIC_LANGUAGES.htm (2316 words)

	SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES
		Their language is perhaps somewhat later in character than that of the oldest words borrowed by the Lapps and Finns, voiced s, for example, is changed into a kind of r (cf.
		For, having regard to the Scandinavian dialects generally, we must adopt quite a different classification from that indicated by the dialects which are represented in the literature.
		The language of the 19th century, or at any rate of the middle of it, is best represented in the works of Wallin and Tegnhr, which, on account of their enormous circulation, have had a greater influence than those of any other authors.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SC/SCANDINAVIAN_LANGUAGES.htm (10207 words)

	North Germanic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages (including English, German, and Dutch) and the East Germanic languages (now extinct).
		They are spoken in the three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), Finland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and to some extent Greenland as well as by immigrant groups mainly in North America and Australia.
		Even if the language policy of Norway has been more tolerant of rural dialectal variation in formal language, the prestige dialect often refered to as "Eastern Urban Norwegian", spoken mainly in and around the Oslo-region, can be considered to be quite normative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Germanic_language (536 words)

	Welcome to UCLA Scandinavian
		The Scandinavian Section is one of the premiere departments in the country for the study of Nordic languages and literatures on the undergraduate and graduate levels.
		Along with the Scandinavian Department at the University of California, Berkeley, the Scandinavian Section provides members of the University of California community, and the citizens of California, with up-to-date, scholarly information and instruction on topics concerning the Nordic countries with a particular emphasis on their cultures, their histories and their languages.
		The Nordic countries, composed of the subset of the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) along with Iceland, Finland and, pending its independence, the Faroe Islands, are culturally interrelated.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/scandinavian (350 words)

	DEPARTMENT OF SCANDINAVIAN
		Although, taken singly, the Scandinavian countries are relatively small in population (Sweden at 8.5 million; Denmark at 5 million; Norway at 4 million; Iceland at 250,000), they form as a whole a common linguistic and cultural community of some size.
		Admissions are recommended by the Department of Scandinavian to the Dean of the Graduate Division and are subject to limitations on the number of annual admissions to the Department set by the Division.
		The Language Program in the Department of Scandinavian is based on a pedagogical approach that focuses on giving the students proficiency in communication and a sound cultural understanding of the target language culture.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/scandinavian/graduate/grad.program.SC.04.htm (4256 words)

	Ethnologue: Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources
		Grjunberg, A. The language of the northern Azerbaijan Tats.
		Linguistic bibliography of the non-Semitic languages of Ethiopia.
		The languages and dialects of the Southwest Province of Cameroon.
	www.ethnologue.com /ethno_docs/bibliography.asp (7065 words)

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		Formal analysis of contemporary Scandinavian languages; syntax, morphology and contrastive phonology.
		Scandinavian languages from Proto-Nordic to the present day standard languages.
		The Scandinavian or the Nordic States and international relations with emphasis on their roles in the major issues and conflicts of the twentieth century and their participation in international organizations.
	www.wisc.edu /pubs/home/archives/grad00/letsci/scandiC.html (711 words)

	Scandinavian languages - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Scandinavian languages are the three mutually intelligible North Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia: Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
		In some cases the differences between the languages are smaller than the differences between the dialects within one of the languages.
		All North Germanic languages diverged from Old Norse about a millennium ago, but the three Scandinavian languages were later strongly influenced by Low Saxon (German).
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /scandinavian_language.htm (141 words)

	Scandinavian Studies
		Scandinavian studies is concerned with the study of languages, literature, history, politics, and cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
		The 65 credits include 30 credits in first- and second-year language training, 15 credits in literature courses in the chosen language, one course in Scandinavian area studies, a course in the history of Scandinavian languages or Finnish cultural studies, a course in Scandinavian literature in translation, and a senior essay (SCAND 498).
		Graduates of the Scandinavian studies program have the qualifications to embark on careers that require skills in the interpretation of information in various media, critical analysis, and effective communication and to continue in graduate programs and professional schools that value an international perspective.
	www.washington.edu /students/gencat/academic/scandinavian.html (1015 words)

	Scandinavia - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Scandinavian languages are entirely unrelated to Finnish and Estonian, which as Finno-Ugric languages rather are distantly related to Hungarian.
		The end of the Scandinavian political movement came when Denmark was denied military support from Sweden-Norway to annex the (Danish) Duchy of Schleswig, which together with the (German) Duchy of Holstein had been in personal union with Denmark.
		The modern Scandinavian cooperation after World War I also came to include the independent Finland and (since 1944) Iceland and Scandinavian as a political term came to be replaced by the term Nordic countries; and eventually, in 1952, by the Nordic Council institution.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Scandinavia (734 words)

	Encyclopedia: Scandinavian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The North Germanic languages (also Scandinavian languages or Nordic languages) is a branch of the Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia, parts of Finland and on the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
		Proto-Norse, Proto-Nordic, Ancient Nordic or Proto-North Germanic was an Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia that is thought to have evolved from Proto-Germanic between the 1st century BC and the 2nd century, and was spoken until ca 800, when it evolved into the Old Norse language.
		Scanian (Swedish: Skånska) is a dialect of Sweden spoken in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Scandinavian-languages (1025 words)

	Handbook for Foreign Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Scandinavian Languages/Swedish Language programme is intended for students who have begun their studies of Swedish abroad and who wish to continue their studies in Finland and Sweden.
		The programme is carried out in co-operation between the Department of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Vaasa in Finland and the Department of Scandinavian Languages at UmeÂ University in Sweden.
		The Scandinavian Languages programme is intended for students with Swedish as their second language.
	www.uwasa.fi /comm/cmc/multima/multima96/handbook/scandinavianlanguage.html (503 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		North Germanic, or Scandinavian, is any of several Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia, parts of Finland and on the islands west to Scandinavia.
		Many dialects in Norway retain the West-Scandinavian features, and Nynorsk, one of the two official written languages of the country, was based primarily on such dialects.
		In particular Bokmål, the first written standard language in Norway, and now the dominating official language, is considered Continental.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/n/no/north_germanic_language.html (454 words)

	Scandinavian Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The main reason for this is that Norwegian is the "in-between" language, the linguistic bridge between Swedish and Danish, and also because the Norwegian group of students at the college is the largest.
		Their language is classified as Finno-Ugric - distantly related to Hungarian and both belonging to the Ural-Altaic language family.
		The Scandinavian teacher does not speak Finnish (although this teacher hold the Finns in high esteem: Kaurismäki, Saariskoski, Tuuri, Tapiovaara and Hukka!) and the Finns will have to study their language as a "self-taught" subject.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /atlantic/AC_new/IB_Curriculum/Scandinavian_Languages.htm (512 words)

	Scandinavian Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All the Scandinavian languages, like English and German, belong to the group of languages called Germanic, which means that they have a common linguistic ancestor and share many everyday words.
		In addition to language classes, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures offers a number of upper-level Scandinavian literature and film courses that are taught in English (students with sufficient fluency in the respective languages are encouraged to do some reading in the original).
		The conversation group gives students an opportunity to practice speaking a Scandinavian language in a relaxed environment, to get to know others who share their interest in Scandinavia, and to hear not just the language they are studying, but also the other modern Scandinavian languages.
	www.german.uiuc.edu /undergrad/scanintro.htm (403 words)


		Most of the languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European family of languages and are therefore at least distantly related to one another.
		The main division was between the West Scandinavian dialects of the lands facing the Atlantic Ocean and the East Scandinavian dialects of those facing the Baltic Sea.
		The written language was essentially contemporary Danish, and the spoken language of the elite was heavily influenced by the written standard.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/scandinavianlang.html (800 words)

	North Germanic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The language group is often also called either the Scandinavian or Nordic languages.
		As a result, Danish and Norwegian may in reality be somewhat more similar to each other than either is to Swedish.
		All North Germanic languages are descended from Old Norse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scandinavian_language (536 words)

	Scandinavian languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The modern standard languages are Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Dano-Norwegian and New Norwegian), Icelandic, and Faroese.
		It began to separate from the other Scandinavian languages, to which it is closely related, about AD 1000.
		The Sami languages, which are mutually unintelligible, are sometimes considered dialects of one language.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066024?tocId=9066024 (782 words)

	British English sounds much like the Scandinavian languages \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their accent and language is scandinavian but not like swedish or noregian, you can hear some common "things" with english accent.
		The Scandinavian influence there is still strong not only in the names but also in the local people.
		Scandinavians are, from what I know, the only foreign people who can speak English nearly without an accent.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/4775.htm (951 words)

	Scandinavian \| People
		Scandinavian immigration to the United States and Danish-American literature.
		The second part of the project studies whether a shift takes place among the 3rd generation from using/choosing Turkish as "mother tongue" (L1) to using it as a functional heritage language.
		The last part of the project is a comparative study of language use and choice among 3rd generation Latino-American heritage speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/scandinavian/people/moller.html (313 words)

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		Forms and themes of Scandinavian children's literature from the nineteenth century to the present.
		Political, social, economic, and cultural development: political realignments and rise of nationalism, industrialization and rise of liberalism and socialism, democratization, independence struggles and social conflict, evolution of welfare states, World War II and its aftermath.
		Examines the verbal, musical, customary, and material folklore of Scandinavian Americans, with emphasis on the upper Midwest.
	www.wisc.edu /pubs/home/archives/grad02/letsci/scandiC.html (803 words)

	MLCS: Undergraduate Programs : Awards & Bursaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS), through the Student Awards Office of the University of Alberta, annually awards approximately $23,000.00 in Book Prizes and Undergraduate Scholarships to students for excellent performance in courses taught within the department.
		The purpose of the Scholarship is to provide some financial assistance to a student wanting to attend a program of formal language study in an environment where one of the languages offered by the Department is the official language.
		Conditions: To be awarded annually on the basis of superior academic achievement to a student demonstrating dedication to the study of Scandinavian languages and culture and skill in language acquisition.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /MLCS/undergraduate/awards.html (3033 words)

	Scandinavian Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are the languages taught in the department.
		From the Middle Ages to the modern period the Scandinavian languages have had a rich literature.
		To the student with historical or social scientific interest there is the development of the modern Scandinavian states which have had an influence out of proportion to their size.
	www.arts.ed.ac.uk /scastuds/scans.html (372 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Scandinavian Languages WWW guide
		The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures teaches these Scandinavian languages:
		Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Scandinavian (literature and culture), Swedish.
		This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon.
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/scandinavian.html (59 words)

	Scandinavian Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Using texts which mainly focus on Nordic literature and culture, students are taught an indipendent and active usage of the respective languages.
		As a preparation for the final evaluation, translating from the respective language and reporting on individual reading will be an integral part of the course.
		The Scandinavian library (at the ILT) will provide you with the necessary reading and study material.
	www.kuleuven.ac.be /ilt/nordica/generalinfo.html (121 words)

	Department of Scandinavian Studies: Contemporary Scandinavian Languages
		After a general survey of distinctive features (phonology, morphology, and vocabulary), time is equally divided between the three languages (5 weeks on each), usually beginning with Norwegian bokmål (since it is generally considered to be the language most easily understood by all Scandinavians).
		Classes, consisting of conversation on given topics, are taught in the three Scandinavian languages by three teachers.
		During the class periods as well as at the final exam, students are asked to use the language of their specializa-tion, though they also learn to understand the spoken as well as the written form of the other two languages.
	scandinavian.wisc.edu /courses/401-csl.html (161 words)

	Scandinavian Languages
		AIM Introduction to Scandinavian literature; Scandinavian Literature I covers the period before 1900; Literature II, the period since 1900.
		AIM Learning the history of one's major language and the regional variations within that linguistic area.
		AIM The subject of the seminar is Scandinavia from the perspective of socio-linguistics, especially the following aspects: language policy, language planning, attitudes toward language, linguistic influences.
	odur.let.rug.nl /faculty/study/exchange/scand.htm (1295 words)

	Scandinavian Studies (University of Alberta)
		The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies offers courses covering the various levels of language instruction from beginning to advanced in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
		These courses aim to provide students with a thorough knowledge of the language, the culture and literature of the Scandinavian countries in the context of a liberal arts education.
		The University of Alberta is the only university in Canada which offers a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Scandinavian, a Bachelor of Arts Combined Honors Degree in Scandinavian and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree/Major in European Studies-Scandinavian.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~scand (133 words)

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