Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subdivision of the Germanic languages that includes Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, and Faroese.
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- proper noun linguistics A branch of the
Germanic language family which comprisesDanish ,Faroese ,Icelandic ,Norwegian andSwedish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
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Examples
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This “foreign,” North Germanic language would alter the course of English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This “foreign,” North Germanic language would alter the course of English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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As a result, things have never looked better for the small cadre of Icelandic translators who render the North Germanic tongue of 320,000 island-dwellers into something the rest of the world can understand.
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Forelle makes it clear that learning the North Germanic language is not an easy task.
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Stranding prepositions (prepositions without objects) are native to all North Germanic languages and are an integral part of English.
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This sort of thing, however, is paralleled in North Germanic languages like Swedish e.g. -en in pojken or -et in huset where their definite suffixes arose in the same way that Etruscan appears to have been evolving.
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The tripartite division was East Germanic (Gothic and other extinct languages), West Germanic (German, Dutch, English), and North Germanic (Danish and the other Scandinavian languages.)
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They belong for the greater part to the North Germanic race (Norsemen).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The Vikings spoke a related, North Germanic language, and while the roots were similar enough to their Anglo-Saxon counterparts to be easily understood, the case endings were entirely different.
Right Wing Nation 2009
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Proto-Germanic was eventually divided into several different but similar languages, specifically East Germanic, West Germanic and North Germanic.
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