* Icelandic, Faroese: Ásgarður

Icelandic and Faroese have preaspirated ; some scholars interpret these as consonant clusters as well.

* In Germanic languages, except English, East Sea is used: Afrikaans ( Oossee ), Danish ( Østersøen ), Dutch ( Oostzee ), German ( Ostsee ), Icelandic and Faroese ( Eystrasalt ), Norwegian ( Østersjøen ), and Swedish ( Östersjön ).

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

The situation remains similar in modern Faroese and Icelandic, but in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, the enclitics have become endings.

Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while the old Norwegian dialects before the influence of Danish and Bokmål is classified as a West Norse language together with Faroese and Icelandic.

A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian and Swedish into a Mainland Scandinavian group while Icelandic and Faroese are placed in a separate category labelled Insular Scandinavian.

Eth ( Ð, ð ; also spelled edh or eð ) is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese ( in which it is called edd ), and Elfdalian.

In the Icelandic and Faroese alphabets, ð follows d.

Forseti ( Old Norse " the presiding one ," actually " president " in Modern Icelandic and Faroese ) is an Æsir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology.

For instance, dialects of Old Norse are the proto-language of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese and Icelandic.

The term is related to mad in Danish, mat in Swedish and Norwegian, and matur in Icelandic and Faroese, which also mean ' food '.

* West Norse, the modern languages of Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic

Together with Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian it belongs to the West Scandinavian group, separating it from the East Scandinavian group consisting of Swedish, Danish and Gutnish.

Under this system, Norwegian is grouped together with the neighbouring languages Danish and Swedish, because the last millennium has seen all three undergo important changes, especially in grammar and lexis, which have set them apart from Faroese and Icelandic.

Today Old Norse has developed into the modern North Germanic languages ( Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish ), and although distinct languages there is still considerable mutual intelligibility.

The modern descendants of the Old West Norse dialect are the West Scandinavian languages of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian and the extinct Norn language of the Orkney and the Shetland Islands ; the descendants of the Old East Norse dialect are the East Scandinavian languages of Danish and Swedish.

Among these, Icelandic and the closely related Faroese have changed the least from Old Norse in the last thousand years, although with Danish rule of the Faroe Islands, Faroese has also been influenced by Danish.

These languages are Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic, with the latter two being closest to Old Norse.

The name continues on as Norwegian Ty, Swedish Tyr, Danish Tyr, while it remains Týr in Modern Icelandic and Faroese.

Both words are thought to be derived from Common Germanic * jeχʷla -, and are cognate to Gothic ( fruma ) jiuleis and Old Norse ( Icelandic and Faroese ) jól ( Danish and Swedish jul and Norwegian jul or jol ) as well as ýlir.

* September 24 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Icelandic / Faroese / Danish physician and scientist ( b. 1860 )

Faroese Starling ; sometimes misspelt faeroensis or faroeensis.

Yet, by 1600, another classification of the North Germanic language branches had arisen from a syntactic point of view, dividing them into an insular group ( Icelandic and Faroese ) and a continental group ( Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ).

It is one of three insular Scandinavian languages descended from the Old Norse language spoken in Scandinavia in the Viking Age, the others being Icelandic and the extinct Norn, which is thought to have been mutually intelligible with Faroese.

Norn is generally considered to have been fairly similar to Faroese, sharing many phonological and grammatical traits with this language, and might even have been mutually intelligible with it ; thus, it can be considered an Insular Scandinavian language.

Jörð is the common word for earth in Old Norse, as are the word's descendants in the modern Scandinavian languages ; Icelandic jörð, Faroese jørð, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord.

After the Proto-Norse and Old Norse periods, the North Germanic languages developed into an East Scandinavian branch, consisting of Danish and Swedish ; and a West Scandinavian branch, consisting of Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic.

Icelandic and Faroese are the only Scandinavian languages not to use the letter Å.

* since around 1600-The Faroese language can be distinguished as separate Scandinavian language.

It is a cognate of the Scandinavian languages ' words for skerry – Icelandic, Faroese: sker, Danish: skær, Swedish: skär, Norwegian: skjær / skjer, German: Schäre, Finnish " kari ", Estonian: skäär and Latvian: šēra.

The Faroese language is a West Scandinavian language, closely related to Icelandic and more distantly to western Norwegian dialects.

* The slashed zero format causes problems for certain Scandinavian languages — Ø is used as a letter in the Danish, Faroese and Norwegian alphabets, where it represents or.

A lawspeaker ( Swedish: lagman, Old Swedish: laghmaþer or laghman, Danish: lagmand, Norwegian: lagmann, Icelandic: lög ( sögu ) maður, Faroese: løgmaður, Finnish: laamanni ) is a unique Scandinavian legal office.

Many of these use the Faroese and Greenlandic languages, respectively, as their first language.

Danish is the national language of Denmark, and one of two official languages of the Faroes ( alongside Faroese ).

The Faroese language is one of the smallest of the Germanic languages.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

However, all modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German Tier, Alemannic Diere or Tiere, Pennsylvania Dutch Gedier, Dutch dier, Afrikaans dier, Limburgish diere, Norwegian dyr, Swedish djur, Danish dyr, Icelandic dýr, Faroese dýr, West Frisian dier, and North Frisian diarten, all of which mean " animal.

There are cognates in most Germanic languages, such as the Swedish, Faroese and Nynorsk ; West Frisian and Middle Low German ; Middle Dutch ; Dutch ; Middle Low German ; Middle High German (""); German, and perhaps Old English.

Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor ( Norse Thor in northern Europe ), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Hósdagur / Tórsdagur in Faroese, Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch.

It has cognates in other Germanic languages — for example tonge in West Frisian, tong in Dutch / Afrikaans, tunge in Danish / Norwegian and tunga in Icelandic / Faroese / Swedish.

However, the reduction of unstressed vowels to schwa ( i. e., to unpronounced vowels ), due to a fixed stress location, contributed to this process, a pattern which is common to many Germanic languages ( although a few, such as dialects of Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese, have not undergone this reduction of vowel sounds ).

Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.

Æ ( minuscule: æ ) is a grapheme formed from the letters a and e. Originally a ligature representing a Latin diphthong, it has been promoted to the full status of a letter in the alphabets of some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese.

Ø or ( minuscule ) ø is a vowel and a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese and Southern Sami languages.