Scandinavian languages

[Somebody17]

Why are Finnish and Icelandic different from the other Scandinavian languages?

[shaneystar2]

These links may give you some insight into Scandinavian languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_lang uages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_languag e

[jno]

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.)