• The Nordic Language Convention is a convention of linguistic rights that came into force on 1 March 1987, under the auspices of the Nordic Council. Under...
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    forms of the same language forming a common language community. Since 1987, under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries have the...
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    Norwegian is one of the working languages of the Nordic Council. Under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries who speak Norwegian...
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    Swedish as its working languages (although the council does publish material in Icelandic). Under the Nordic Language Convention, since 1987 Icelandic...
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    most spoken Germanic language, and the first among its type in the Nordic countries overall. Swedish, like the other Nordic languages, is a descendant of...
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    Under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries speaking Finnish have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting...
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    one of the working languages of the Nordic Council. Under the Nordic Language Convention, Danish-speaking citizens of the Nordic countries have the opportunity...
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    The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe, as well as the...
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    Ancient Nordic; Danish and Norwegian: urnordisk; Swedish: urnordiska; Icelandic: frumnorræna; Faroese: frumnorrønt) was an Indo-European language spoken...
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    Scandinavism (redirect from Pan-Nordic)
    culture. Nordic Council Nordic Language Convention Nordic Passport Union Nordic student meeting Pan-nationalism Scandinavian defence union Nordic Defence...
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    The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations...
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    Scandinavia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Oskar Bandle (March 2005). The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages. Walter de Gruyter. p. 2115....
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  • from Schleswig-Holstein in the 19th century. "Facts about the Nordic Region-Language". Nordic Council. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved...
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    The Nordic Passport Union allows citizens of the Nordic countries—Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland—to travel and reside in another Nordic country...
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    Sámi people (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
    the Sámi language and culture and rights to land and water, livelihoods and society. The convention has not yet been ratified in the Nordic countries...
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    Germanic languages, reflecting the hypothesis that Gothic was the first attested language to branch off. A minority opinion (the so-called Gotho-Nordic hypothesis)...
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  • NärCon (category Anime and manga conventions)
    (formally written as NärCon; lit. 'NearCon') is a combined gaming and anime convention which is arranged twice per year in Linköping, Sweden by NärCon Eventbyrå...
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    The Nordic Model approach to sex work, also known as the end demand, equality model, neo-abolitionism, Nordic and Swedish model, is an approach to prostitution...
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    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international international human rights treaty...
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    ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (category Articles containing Finnish-language text)
    code for Kosovo. The code XN is being used by WIPO as an indicator for the Nordic Patent Institute, an international organization common to Denmark, Iceland...
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    speakers in the Nordic countries and an additional five million second language speakers; since the Middle Ages, however, these languages have been strongly...
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    The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), sometimes known as the Vienna Convention, is a multilateral treaty...
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    genitive works in Icelandic Icelandic language List of Icelanders Scandinavian family name etymology Naming conventions similar to Icelandic names: Generally:...
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    Faroe Islands (category Members of the Nordic Council)
    locally and in the Nordic region. Erlendur Patursson (1913–86), a Faroese member of the Nordic Council, raised the idea of a Nordic cultural house in the...
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    Latvia (category Articles containing Latvian-language text)
    the Baltic Sea States, the International Monetary Fund, the Nordic-Baltic Eight, the Nordic Investment Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
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    Latin alphabet, or to get around previously established spelling conventions. Most languages added auxiliary marks (diacritics) to some letters, for these...
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    Messukeskus Helsinki, Expo and Convention Centre (formerly Helsinki Fair Centre) is the biggest and best-known convention center in Finland. It is located...
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    The Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), formerly the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, is a 32-story building located in Nairobi,...
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    Icelandic scribal conventions, and it is not certain that the poem was composed in Greenland. Greenlandic Norse is believed to have been in language contact with...
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  • Old Norwegian (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    Nordic to Early Modern Nordic I: West Scandinavian". The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages....
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