List of Germanic Languages - North Germanic

North Germanic

  • Proto-Norse†
    • Old Norse†
      • West Scandinavian
        • Norwegian (generally Western branch, but heavy influence from Eastern branch)
          • Bokmål (official written standard)
          • Høgnorsk (unofficial written standard)
          • Landsmål (unofficial written standard)
          • Nynorsk (official written standard)
          • Riksmål (unofficial written standard)
          • Vestlandsk
            • Sørlandsk
            • South-West Norwegian
            • Bergen Norwegian/Bergensk
            • North-West Norwegian
          • Nord-Norsk
            • Helgeland Norwegian
            • Nordland Norwegian
            • Troms Norwegian
            • Finnmark Norwegian
          • East Norwegian
            • Vikvær Norwegian
            • Middle East Norwegian
            • Oppland Norwegian
            • Østerdal Norwegian
          • Midland Norwegian
            • Gudbrandsdal Norwegian
            • Valdres and Hallingdal
            • Western Telemark Norwegian
            • Eastern Telemark Norwegian
          • Trøndelag Norwegian
            • Outer Trøndelag Norwegian
            • Inner Trøndelag Norwegian
            • Namdal Norwegian
            • South-eastern Trøndersk
            • Jamtlandic (significant influx of words from Swedish)
            • Herdalian (significant influx of words from Swedish)
        • Icelandic
          • Old Icelandic†
            • Middle Icelandic†
              • Modern Icelandic
        • Gøtudanskt (Faroese Street Danish)
        • Faroese
          • Old Faroese†
            • Middle Faroese†
              • Modern Faroese
        • Norn†
          • Caithness Norn†
          • Orkney Norn†
          • Shetland Norn†
      • East Scandinavian
        • Danish
          • Old Danish
            • Middle Danish
              • Modern Danish
                  • Bornholmsk
                  • Island Danish
                  • Jutlandic/Jutish
                    • North Jutlandic
                    • East Jutlandic
                    • West Jutlandic
                      • South Jutlandic (Danish: Slesvig; German: Schleswig)
        • Swedish
          • Old Swedish
            • Modern Swedish
              • Svealand Swedish
                • Dalecarlian
                  • Elfdalian (considered a Swedish Sveamål dialect, but has official orthography and is, because of a lower degree of mutual intelligibility with Swedish, considered a separate language by many linguists, see p. 6 in this reference)
              • Norrlandic
              • Götish
              • East Swedish/Finland Swedish
              • South Swedish
                • Scanian
              • Gutnish
                • Old Gutnish†
                • Modern Gutnish

Alternate classification of contemporary North Germanic languages

  • Insular Scandinavian
    • Icelandic
    • Faroese
  • Continental Scandinavian
    • Danish
    • Norwegian
    • Swedish

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