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Norwegian language

Norwegian (endonym: norsk ⓘ, norsk språk [ˈnɔʂːk sproːk]) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, …

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Early forms
Old West Norse Old Norwegian Middle Norwegian · Old Norwegian Middle Norwegian · Middle Norwegian
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Glottolog
norw1258
ISO 639-1
no
ISO 639-2
nor
ISO 639-3
nor – inclusive code Individual codes: nob – Bokmål nno – Nynorsk

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Norwegian language

Nodes182
Edges181
Triples95
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010989
Components1

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Norwegian language

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related to Bibliography · 41
Norwegian language → Abingdon, Andreas Sveen, Archived, Arne Torp, Beito, Bokmål, Comprehensive Grammar, December, Det Norske Samlaget, English Archived, Granta, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, Hanne Gram Simonsen, Hans-Olav Enger, Hovuddrag, Innføring, ISBN, June, Kjell Ivar Vannebo, Language
related to Accent · 15
Norwegian language → Accent, East Norwegian, English, For, In, Norway, Norwegian, Old Norse, Swedish, That, The, There, They, Though, Thus
related to Danish to Norwegian standardisation · 14
Norwegian language → Aasen's, Danish, Dano-Norwegian, From, He, Icelandic, Ivar Aasen, Knud Knudsen, Landsmål, Meanwhile, Norway, Norwegian, Norwegianised, The
Language family · 5
Norwegian language → GermanicNorthwest GermanicNorth GermanicWest ScandinavianNorwegian, North GermanicWest ScandinavianNorwegian, Northwest GermanicNorth GermanicWest ScandinavianNorwegian, Norwegian, West ScandinavianNorwegian
Standard forms · 4
Norwegian language → written Bokmål (official), written Nynorsk (official), • written Høgnorsk (unofficial), • written Riksmål (unofficial)
Early forms · 3
Norwegian language → Middle Norwegian, Old Norwegian Middle Norwegian, Old West Norse Old Norwegian Middle Norwegian
Official language in · 2
Norwegian language → Nordic Council, Norway
Ethnicity · 1
Norwegian language → Norwegians
Glottolog · 1
Norwegian language → norw1258
ISO 639-1 · 1
Norwegian language → no

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norwegian bokmål nynorsk language dialects norway english languages adjectives also written danish riksmål nouns like noun form pronouns gender verb

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Norwegian languageEarly formsOld West Norse Old Norwegian Middle Norwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageEarly formsOld Norwegian Middle Norwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageEarly formsMiddle Norwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageEthnicityNorwegians1.00infobox
Norwegian languageGlottolognorw12581.00infobox
Norwegian languageISO 639-1no1.00infobox
Norwegian languageISO 639-2nor1.00infobox
Norwegian languageISO 639-3nor – inclusive code Individual codes: nob – Bokmål nno – Nynorsk1.00infobox
Norwegian languageLanguage familyGermanicNorthwest GermanicNorth GermanicWest ScandinavianNorwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageLanguage familyNorthwest GermanicNorth GermanicWest ScandinavianNorwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageLanguage familyNorth GermanicWest ScandinavianNorwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageLanguage familyWest ScandinavianNorwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageLanguage familyNorwegian1.00infobox
Norwegian languageLinguasphere52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg1.00infobox
Norwegian languageNative speakers4.32 million (2012)1.00infobox
Norwegian languageNative toNorway1.00infobox
Norwegian languageOfficial language inNorway1.00infobox
Norwegian languageOfficial language inNordic Council1.00infobox
Norwegian languagePronunciation[ˈnɔʂːk] (East, Central and North) [ˈnɔʁsk] (West and South)1.00infobox
Norwegian languageRegulated byLanguage Council of Norway (Bokmål and Nynorsk) Norwegian Academy (Riksmål) Ivar Aasen-sambandet (Høgnorsk)1.00infobox
Norwegian languageStandard formswritten Bokmål (official)1.00infobox
Norwegian languageStandard forms• written Riksmål (unofficial)1.00infobox
Norwegian languageStandard formswritten Nynorsk (official)1.00infobox
Norwegian languageStandard forms• written Høgnorsk (unofficial)1.00infobox
Norwegian languageWriting systemLatin (Norwegian alphabet) Norwegian Braille1.00infobox

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