Swedes have the best non-native English skills in the world, according to the eighth edition of the EF English Proficiency Index. Sweden’s Scandinavian siblings Norway and Denmark also place in the ...

Swedes often have a hard time understanding Danes in particular, despite the fact the Scandinavian languages are very similar. Photo: Søren Bidstrup/Scanpix Denmark/AFP At a conference in Sweden ...

Norn is the extinct Scandinavian language of Scottish regions like the Shetland Islands which was brought there by way of Norse settlers. To this day, Shetland communities celebrate their Nordic ...

While all of the Scandinavian languages have verb-second order in main clauses, they vary in the word order in subordinate clauses: in Icelandic the finite verb appears in a high position, to the left ...