Old East Norse

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Old Norse variety historical language medieval North Germanic language variety

Old East Norse was a medieval North Germanic language variety spoken in what is now Denmark and Sweden, forming one of the main branches of Old Norse.

Aliases (7)

Old Swedish ×5
Old Danish ×4
Old Norse ×3
Eastern Old Norse ×1
Medieval Scandinavian linguistic continuum ×1
Old East Nordic ×1
Old Gotlandic ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Old Norse variety → historical language → medieval North Germanic language variety →
closelyRelatedTo	Old Gutnish → Old West Norse →
contrastedWith	Old West Norse →
developedFrom	Old Norse → Proto-Norse →
developedInto	Danish → Scanian → Swedish →
era	approximately 8th century to 14th century →
geographicDistribution	eastern part of the Old Norse–speaking area →
hasAlternativeName	Eastern Old Norse → Old East Nordic →
hasDialect	Old Danish → Old Swedish →
hasFeature	case-inflected nouns → grammatical gender system → i-umlaut → strong and weak verb classes → u-umlaut →
hasISOStatus	historical language (no ISO 639-3 code as a separate language) →
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet → Younger Futhark runic alphabet →
influenced	East Scandinavian dialects → Modern Danish → Modern Swedish →
languageFamily	Germanic → Indo-European → North Germanic →
partOf	Medieval Scandinavian linguistic continuum →
region	medieval Denmark → medieval Sweden →
spokenIn	Denmark → Scandinavia → Sweden →
subclassOf	Germanic languages → Indo-European languages → North Germanic languages → Old Norse →
timePeriod	Middle Ages → Viking Age →
usedFor	administrative documents → legal texts → religious texts → runestones inscriptions →

Referenced by (20)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Danish language → Norn ("Old Norse") → Old East Norse ("Old Norse") → Swedish language ("Old Swedish") →	developedFrom
Old East Norse ("Old East Nordic") → Old East Norse ("Eastern Old Norse") → Old Gutnish ("Old Gotlandic") →	hasAlternativeName
Norse → Old East Norse ("Old Danish") → Old East Norse ("Old Swedish") →	hasDialect
Old Norwegian ("Old Danish") → Old Norwegian ("Old Swedish") →	closelyRelatedTo
Old Gutnish → Old Gutnish ("Old Danish") →	distinctFrom
North Germanic languages ("Old Swedish") → North Germanic languages ("Old Danish") →	includesLanguage
Old East Norse ("Medieval Scandinavian linguistic continuum") →	partOf
Gutnish ("Old Swedish") →	sharesFeaturesWith
Old East Norse ("Old Norse") →	subclassOf
Proto-Norse →	successor