North Germanic Languages - Number of Speakers

Number of Speakers

Language Speakers Notes
Swedish 10,000,000 300,000 Swedish-speaking Finns
Danish 6,000,000
Norwegian 5,000,000 approx. 85-90% prefer Bokmål as their written standard, 10-15% Nynorsk
Icelandic 320,000
Faroese 70,000
Jamtlandic 45,000
Elfdalian 3,000

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