Minna Sundberg’s illustration maps the relationships between Indo-European and Uralic languages. The creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, put the illustration together to show why some of the characters in her comic were able to understand each other despite speaking different languages. She wanted to show how closely related Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic were to each other, and how Finnish came from distinct linguistic roots.
See also this illustration for a fun digression on Scandinavian/Nordic languages and how close they really are.
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VegBerg: In addition, you should check out the comic itself, which is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the Nordic countries have survived. The comic does a good job on showing similarities between the Scandinavian languages, and its differences. In addition, we have Finnish as a bit of a lone wolf.