Norse leid
North Germanic leid / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norse or Norawa (norsk) is a Germanic leid spak mainly in Norawa, whaur it is an offeecial leid. Thegether wi Swadish an Dens, Norse forms a continuum o mair or less mutually intelligible local an regional variants (c.f. Scots-Inglis byleid continuum).
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Norse | |
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norsk | |
Pronunciation | [nɔʂk] (East and North) [nɔʁsk] (Wast) |
Native tae | Norawa |
Ethnicity | Norses |
Native speakers | 5.2 million (2015)[1] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | Auld Norse
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Staundart forms | written Bokmål (offeecial)
• written Riksmål (unoffeecial)
written Nynorsk (offeecial)
• written Høgnorsk (unoffeecial)
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Laitin (Norse alphabet) Norse Braille | |
Signed forms | Norse Sign Leid |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | Norawa Template:Kintra data Nordic Cooncil |
Regulatit bi | Leid Cooncil o Norawa (Bokmål an Nynorsk) Norse Academy (Riksmål) Ivar Aasen-sambandet (Høgnorsk) |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 |
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ISO 639-2 | nor – inclusive codeIndividual codes: nno – Nynorsk |
ISO 639-3 | nor – inclusive codeIndividual codes: nob – Bokmålnno – Nynorsk |
Glottolog | norw1258 [2] |
Linguasphere |
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Areas where Norwegian is spoken, including North Dakota (where 0.4% of the population speaks Norwegian), western Wisconsin (<0.1% of the population), and Minnesota (0.1% of the population) (Data: U.S. Census 2000). | |
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Thir continental Scandinavian leids thegether wi the insular leids Faroese an Icelandic, an some deid leids, constitutes the North Germanic leids (cried Scandinavie leids an aw). Faroese an Icelandic is nae langer mutually intelligible wi Norse in thair spoken form, acause continental Scandinavie haes diverged frae them.