North Germanic, descended from Old Norse; there are varying and debatable degrees of mutual intelligibility between it, Danish and Norwegian, to the point that instructions on product packages sold in the three countries are sometimes written as one phrase for all three, with differing words written with slashes, and linguists occasionally lump all three together as “Scandinavian”.
Out of interest, what did you think it was if not Germanic?
Swedish is a Germanic language tf? Just checked Wikipedia and spparently you’re right
Nordic languages branched off from Germanic languages, so they’re related yea
North Germanic, descended from Old Norse; there are varying and debatable degrees of mutual intelligibility between it, Danish and Norwegian, to the point that instructions on product packages sold in the three countries are sometimes written as one phrase for all three, with differing words written with slashes, and linguists occasionally lump all three together as “Scandinavian”.
Out of interest, what did you think it was if not Germanic?
I rhought it was Scandinavian/Norse but never thought deeper than that.
Fun fact: The Frisian language (and Dutch by extension) has overlapping origin with both Danish and Swedish.
We can usually grasp a lot of conversational Danish and Swedish because a lot of the words are similar.