The Languages of Scandinavia Seven Sisters of the North |
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| Author:
| Sanders, Ruth H. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-49389-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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This work narrates the shared history of the seven languages of Scandinavia and their development from earliest times to the present: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, and S#65533;mi. These "seven sisters of the north” have coexisted in Scandinavia for millennia but come from two distinct language families: two of them are Finno-Ugric and five Germanic. Traditionally, studies of the linguistic history have considered the two families separately because...
More DescriptionThis work narrates the shared history of the seven languages of Scandinavia and their development from earliest times to the present: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, and S#65533;mi. These "seven sisters of the north” have coexisted in Scandinavia for millennia but come from two distinct language families: two of them are Finno-Ugric and five Germanic. Traditionally, studies of the linguistic history have considered the two families separately because of their ultimate differing origins. However, a crisscrossing of names, territories, and even to some extent language genetics in the North through millennia has created a body of shared culture, experience, and linguistic influence that is illuminated when these seven languages are told as a singular story, an approach that has been called language contact. This book breaks new ground by considering them together.