Scandinavian languages

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Introduction
History of Old Scandinavian
- The emergence of Old Scandinavian, 600–1500
- The advent of Christianity
- Reformation and Renaissance
- Dialects and standard languages
Linguistic characteristics
- Common and distinctly Scandinavian characteristics
- Orthography
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Vocabulary

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