Norwegian language
North Germanic language spoken in Norway / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Norwegian language is the official language of Norway. It is spoken by over four and a half million people, and it belongs to the group of North Germanic languages which are spoken in Scandinavia. These include Swedish, Danish, Icelandic and Faeroese.
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Norwegian | |
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norsk | |
Pronunciation | [nɔʂk] (East and North) [nɔʁsk] (West) |
Native to | Norway Sweden Finland Russia |
Ethnicity | Norwegians |
Native speakers | 4.3 million (2012)[1] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | Old Norse
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Standard forms | written Bokmål (official)
written Nynorsk (official)
• written Høgnorsk (unofficial)
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Latin (Norwegian alphabet) Norwegian Braille | |
Norwegian Sign Language | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Norway Nordic Council |
Regulated by | Language Council of Norway (Bokmål and Nynorsk) Norwegian Academy (Riksmål) Ivar Aasen-sambandet (Høgnorsk) |
Language 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 |
Linguasphere | 52-AAA-ba to -be ;52-AAA-cf to -cg |
Areas where Norwegian is spoken, including North Dakota (where 0.4% of the population speaks Norwegian) and Minnesota (0.1% of the population) (Data: U.S. Census 2000). | |
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Bokmål edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nynorsk edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two forms of the language exist: bokmål (which means "book language") and nynorsk (which means "new Norwegian").