SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scandinavian language mean? 

• SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland

  Familiarity information: SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGE (noun)

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Meaning:

The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Nordic; Norse; North Germanic; North Germanic language; Scandinavian; Scandinavian language

Hypernyms ("Scandinavian language" is a kind of...):

Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Scandinavian language"):

Danish (a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark)

Icelandic (a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland)

Norwegian (a Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway)

Swedish (a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland)

Faeroese; Faroese (a Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands)