Scandinavian Countries
Scandinavia may be a
large region of northern Europe that's predominantly made from the Scandinavia.
This peninsula contains the countries of Norway and Sweden. Neighbouring
Denmark and Finland, also as Iceland, also are considered to be a part of this
region.
Geographically, the
Scandinavia is the largest peninsula in Europe, extending from above the Arctic
Circle to the shores of the Baltic. It covers about 289,500 square miles.
What Is The Scandinavian Peninsula?
The Scandinavia is
formed from Sweden and Norway. The peninsular is about 1,150 mi (1,850 km) long
and extends southward from the Barents Sea within the north, the Norwegian Sea
to the west, and therefore the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea to the east.
Kattegat and Skagerrak separate the peninsular from Denmark. Norway lies to the
east, and Sweden lies to the west.
The peninsula has a
neighbourhood of 750,000 sq km (289,500 sq mi). The landscape essentially
consists of mountainous ranges, created by glaciation shift about 2,600,000 to
11,700 years ago. Sweden has comparatively gentle slopes of a low gradient down
to the Baltic Sea, while Norway’s mountains continue close to the coastline,
and are deeply cut by beautiful fjords.
Languages in Scandinavia:
The majority of the
population of Scandinavia (including Iceland and therefore the Faroe Islands)
today derive their language from several Scandinavian tribes who once inhabited
the southern a part of Scandinavia and spoke a Germanic that evolved into Old
Norse and from Old Norse into Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese, and
Icelandic. The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages form a dialect continuum
and are referred to as the Scandinavian languages—all of which are considered
mutually intelligible with each other. Faroese and Icelandic, sometimes
mentioned as insular Scandinavian languages, are intelligible in continental
Scandinavian languages only to a limited extent.
A small minority of
Scandinavians are Sami people, concentrated within the extreme north of Scandinavia.
Finland (sometimes
included in Scandinavia in English usage) is especially populated by speakers
of Finnish, with a minority of roughly 5% of Swedish speakers. However, Finnish
is additionally spoken as a recognized minority language in Sweden, including
in distinctive varieties sometimes referred to as Meänkieli. Finnish is
distantly associated with the Sami languages, but these are entirely different
in origin to the Scandinavian languages.
German (in Denmark),
Yiddish, and Romani have recognized minority languages in parts of Scandinavia.
More recent migrations have added even more languages. Apart from Sami and
therefore the languages of minority groups speaking a variant of the bulk
language of a neighbouring state, the subsequent minority languages in
Scandinavia are protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages: Yiddish, Romani Chib/Romanes, and Romani.
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