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date: 14 December 2024

Scandinavian Family Names 

Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Olav VekaOlav Veka, Lennart RymanLennart Ryman

Scandinavia is comprised of three countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, each with its own national language, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish respectively. These belong to the northern branch of the Germanic languages. There are two other closely related languages in this group, Faeroese and Icelandic, but they have so few speakers (about 314,000 speakers of Icelandic and about 72,000 of Faeroese) and such a small history of immigration in North America, that their family names do not occur in this dictionary.... ...

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