Norwegian
Language
Norwegian
dialects, Norwegian alphabet, Norwegian orthography,
Norwegian language history and sources
About
Norwegian language
Norwegian: Official language of
Number
of Norwegian Speakers: About six million worldwide.
Norwegian Speakers: In
Norwegian Dialects: Norwegian has two variants: Bokmal (book
language) and the Landsmal (Nynorsk). Two languages have
equal validity in law and in school system. Bokmal is
leading language and stronger in Eastern Norway while the
Nynorsk is stronger in western
Norwegian Alphabet: Latin alphabet. It uses pitch accents,
less than those in Swedish. Most words in two languages are
same but sometimes spelled differently.
Norwegian Orthography: Fairly simple grammar. The form of
the nouns is modified only when possession is changed, also
in plural version.
Norwegian Language History: Old Norse was used in |
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Norwegian Language Enriched by: Low German and Swedish.
Norwegian Standardization Efforts: Government's
orthographical and grammatical reforms after 1905 made
Bokmal more popular. Efforts were made to merge two
languages to have one common Norwegian language (Samnorsk).
Modern
Norwegian - Major Events: Linguists feel that Bokmal needs
to be changed in terms of its unnatural and illogical
structure. Almost 80 percent of the children preferred
Bokmal as their main language at schools.
Norwegian
language is included in
the
Speech Assessment Methods
Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable
phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based
on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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