Norwegian
A language of Norway
| Population | 4,640,000. |
| Language map |
Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden |
| Dialects | Bokmål, Nynorsk. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian, Danish-Swedish, Danish-Bokmal |
| Language development | Fully developed. Bible: 1978. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Norwegian has 2 written standards, both have which are assigned codes in the ISO 639-3 standard: Bokmål Norwegian [nob] and Nynorsk Norwegian [nno]. Draws lexicon and syntax from both West Scandinavian and East Scandinavian speech varieties. Bokmål differs from Riksmål in genders, lexicon, counting system, using diphthongs versus single vowels, having a tendency to permit concrete noun endings in abstract situations, etc. SVO. |
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