The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages, the languages of Scandinavians, make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages  and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is sometimes referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Swedish and Norwegian scholars and laypeople. In Scandinavia, Scandinavian languages is also used as a term referring specifically to the mutually intelligible languages of the three Scandinavian countries, and is thus used in a more narrow sense as a subset of the Nordic languages. The term Scandinavian arose in the 18th century, as a result of the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement, referring to the peoples, cultures and languages of the three Scandinavian countries and stressing their common heritage.

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Les langues scandinaves, essentiellement parlées dans les pays nordiques de Scandinavie, sont une sous-famille des langues germaniques qui font partie des langues indo-européennes.

Nordiska språk, även nordgermanska, är en språkgrupp i norra Europa, som omfattar språken danska, svenska, norska, färöiska, isländska,  älvdalska samt det utdöda språket norn.

Języki skandynawskie (języki nordyckie, północnogermańskie) - północna grupa języków germańskich, którymi posługuje się blisko 18 mln mówiących, zamieszkujących Europę Północną, konkretnie kraje nordyckie.