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Scandinavian languages
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Why are Finnish and Icelandic different from the other Scandinavian languages?
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Finnish is a bit of a mystery; it's very distantly related to Hungarian, but seemingly not to other languages, and nobody is sure why. But I don't think Icelandic is any more different than you'd expect of a language on an island a long way from other countries. (Likewise, it's not so surprising that Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are close.)