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( North Germanic languages)
The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian 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 and the East Germanic languages. The language group is sometimes called Nordic languages, a direct translation of the term "nordiske sprog/nordiska språk/nordiske språk", the most common endogenous term by scholars and laymen in the North Germanic languages. The term "North Germanic languages" is used in genetic linguistics,[1] while the term "Scandinavian languages" appears in studies of the modern standard languages and the dialect continuum of Scandinavia.[2][3] Approximately 20 million people in the Nordic countries have a Scandinavian language as their mother tongue,[4] including a significant Swedish minority in Finland. Languages belonging to the North Germanic language tree are also (to some extent) spoken on Greenland and by immigrant groups mainly in North America and Australia.
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