Einar Haugen
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LOCATION: Belmont, MA, United States
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and Scandinavian, Harvard University, 1964–75. Author of Language Conflict and Language Planning: The Case of Modern Norwegian and others.
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Scandinavian languages, group of Germanic languages consisting of modern standard Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Dano-Norwegian and New Norwegian), Icelandic, and Faroese. These languages are usually divided into East Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish) and West Scandinavian (Norwegian, Icelandic, and…
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