no one knows, since it is only hypothetical -- but many people talk and think about Finland as Scandinavian even though their language isn't even Indo-European.
@@Hurlebatte The claim in the video is not about how the English language would be clased by linguists. It is about where England as a country would be fitted into the social and political geography of Europe. Like Denmark and Iceland, most of Finland is not on the Scandinavian Peninsula, yet it is considered Scandinavian because of social and political links. Absent the Norman invasion, those affinities would arguably have been stronger in England, even if it spoke a West Germanic language rather than North Germanic, as compared to Finland. Thanks for listening!
Norse has a strong linguistic connotation, stronger than Nordic and Scandinavian do. Finland isn't typically classified as a Norse country, probably for linguistic reasons. I only bring this up because I've noticed there's a lot of confusion online surrounding North Germanic language/people and West Germanic language/people. I often see claims like that Wednesday was named after a "Viking god", or that Þ came from a "Viking rune". I try to clear up this confusion when I can.
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Thank you for your work!
1:25:40 I don't know about that. English would've still been a West Germanic language.
no one knows, since it is only hypothetical -- but many people talk and think about Finland as Scandinavian even though their language isn't even Indo-European.
Yeah, but Finnish isn't considered Norse, and Finland is considered Scandinavian because it's on Scandinavia.
@@Hurlebatte The claim in the video is not about how the English language would be clased by linguists. It is about where England as a country would be fitted into the social and political geography of Europe.
Like Denmark and Iceland, most of Finland is not on the Scandinavian Peninsula, yet it is considered Scandinavian because of social and political links. Absent the Norman invasion, those affinities would arguably have been stronger in England, even if it spoke a West Germanic language rather than North Germanic, as compared to Finland.
Thanks for listening!
Norse has a strong linguistic connotation, stronger than Nordic and Scandinavian do. Finland isn't typically classified as a Norse country, probably for linguistic reasons.
I only bring this up because I've noticed there's a lot of confusion online surrounding North Germanic language/people and West Germanic language/people. I often see claims like that Wednesday was named after a "Viking god", or that Þ came from a "Viking rune". I try to clear up this confusion when I can.