The languages of Scandinavia : seven sisters of the North /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Dead man talking
- Prologue to history
- Gemini, the twins: Faroese and Icelandic
- East is East: heralding the birth of Danish and Swedish
- The ties that bind: Finnish is visited by Swedish
- The black death comes for Norwegian: Danish makes a house call
- Faroese emerges
- Sámi, language of the far North: encounters with Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish
- Epilogue: the seven sisters now and in the future.