Omg I’m a buffoon, I meant ö the entire time like a CHUMP. sorry I got gm that switched.

Huh yeah guess you can’t really count it as in there since it’s over the water next to Germany. I know it’s somewhat intelligible with Swedish is all. I am playing fast and loose with the definitions here to be charitable to the original commenter.

I mean that there are Southern Sámi (Uralic language) speakers within Sweden and Norway using ø as welll as the Swedish, Norwegian, and Faroese speakers using ø. The Southern Sámi speakers are within Scandinavia, but their language isn’t related to any Indo-European language (or we haven’t found a common ancestor yet). So you could call it a Scandinavian language in that it is located entirely within Scandinavia. But if you use Scandinavian to mean a language that is “northern Germanic and related to Faroese, Swedish, Danish, both Norwegians, etc” then that would be wrong.

To be fair it takes some remembering to know which uses ø vs ö for “oe” and it’s complicated by œ being used in old Norse and æ being used in a bunch of them currently. Easy to remember that ø isn’t used outside of (geographically bounded) Scandinavia but hard to remember where specifically it is used within there.