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Which modern languages belong to the Scandinavian language group?

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Scandinavian languages Distribution of the Germanic languages in Europe.

The modern Scandinavian languages consist of five primary languages, which are categorized into two distinct subgroups:1

East Scandinavian: Danish and Swedish.1
West Scandinavian: Norwegian (encompassing both Dano-Norwegian and New Norwegian), Icelandic, and Faroese.1

These languages belong to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. While they share deep-seated linguistic ties, they are distinct from other languages spoken in the region, such as Finnish, which belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family and is not part of the Scandinavian group.123