What is the most used northern language in Europe?

Here this might help you. I am not sure exactly what you mean be “northern” but russian is the most commonly spoken in comparison to any of the others. In addition a lot of former soviet countries still use russian and you can get around fine in places like, Ukraine, Some people in poland know russian, latvia, estonia and lithuania (i think atleast) Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia. So, I dunno it opens a lot of doors.

Hi! Thank you for answering, but I languages what I thought about are really from the North-Europe.. I can not be more specific: norwegain, sweedish, danish, finish, icelandic (or whatever they call) :)
SO: No russian, no latvian and so…
Oh, better : Scandinavian language family! Which scandinavian language should I pick? Which is the easier and useable?

Here is a narrowed down look at the languages you were referring to. For a comprehensive look at European Languages, you can find them at this link. As far as which one you should pick and which would be easiest to use, I really have no idea about that, sorry.

North Germanic
(descending from Old Norse)

Continental Scandinavian
– Swedish
– Danish
– Norwegian
– Elfdalian

Insular Scandinavian
– Icelandic
– Faroese
– Norn (extinct)

I would suggest you go with NOrwegian.. Norwegian is understood ny both sweedes and the danish.. So you would get 3 for the price of one…
Sweedes and danes do have a bit of trouble understanding a lot of what the other part say..

There really is no right answer to this question since it all depends on where you are going to be living or working. Generally speaking people in Denmark speak Danish, people in Norway speak Norwegian and so on. And it has been my experience that Scandinavian people speak English pretty well compared to for example the Germans and French…
Finnish is a completely different language, and not an Indo-European language like most other languages spoken in Europe. It will not help you much outside of Finland and probably Estonia.
I speak Dutch myself, and although the Scandinavian languages have some familiar sounds, I really do not understand them at all.
The best thing you could probably do is pick the language that seems the most fun for you to learn, maybe based on the fact that you know some people from that country or that you have an interest in a particular culture of one of the countries.

Thank you guys! :) Great answer goes to you all!
Yes, I will have to think about which language would I probably use in the future, like I started to learn dutch, cause I love the country and has many friends over there.
Maybe I give a try to Norwegian, Staalesen’s statement was pretty convincing.

And If you deceide to go for Norwegian, and there is anything you wonder about anything from time to time, feel free to ask me :D

I would wager German.

English and German, I have already got the skills. Dutch and French in progress, and nrre a scandinavian one too :)

I’d go for Staalesen’s. I’ve also heard that it is between Swedish and Danish, and you can basically communicate with most Scandinavians with it, even in Finland. Finnish is incredibly hard and has nothing in common with any other European language, so I’d steer clear of it unless you really want to live there or something.

Finnish is not Indo-European and apparently has the same (Asian) roots as Hungarian and Persian

I have never heard about this language (Staalesen)... but thanks for the advice.
Though, Hungarian (my motherlanguage) is in common with the Finnish one. :) What a surprise, isn’t it? :)

So when are you coming to the Netherlands? :)

There are northern European languages that are not Scandinavian, for instance Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian.

@Jack79: Finnish and Hungarian are Finno-Ugric, but Persian is Indo-European.

Staalesen is a person who suggested Norwegian, and I just agreed
Obviously there are many languages spoken in the North of Europe, but from what I understood tilc was referring only to Scandinavian languages.
morphail, you confused me now about Persian (ie Farsi, right?). I was pretty sure those 3 were of the same family, but I may remember wrong, since I don’t speak any of them myself.

@Vincent: I’ll go next week (2nd of February) to Hooooland :) Can’t wait!! :)
@Jack79: Oh, ok :) I really misunderstood the thing, thanks for making it clear for me. When I get to the Nethrlands next week, I try to buy a grammar book about Norwegian. Can you suggest some good one? Would be nice a book with an audio as well.

I’m really not a specialist. I just spent some time in Copenhagen and Aarhus, where I picked up a few words of Danish. But I’m sure Staalesen (with the Norwegian flag avatar) must know something ;)

Persian is Indo-European
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pes

good link, thanks :)

whatever you do, I wouldn’t go with Finnish (unless you want a challenge and/or a secret language:) ) It’s apparently really hard 2 learn, as it has 15 cases and even the Finns don’t know how many declensions exist, I know a book that listed 120 and then said “and that’s not even all of them.” LOL
also there’s no way to predict what case 2 use after a verb. U just have 2 know…