Many languages are spoken, written and signed in Norway. In Norway, the indigenous languages, Norwegian and Sámi, have official status. Out of them, Norwegian...
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as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are not mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken...
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other symbols. The Sámi languages (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee), also rendered in English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous...
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The Language Council of Norway (Norwegian: Språkrådet, Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsprôːkroːdə]) is the administrative body of the Norwegian state on language...
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Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula...
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Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most...
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Nynorsk (redirect from New-Norwegian language)
standards of what is today called the Norwegian language. Both written languages are in reality fusions between the Norwegian and Danish languages as they...
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Bokmål (redirect from Norwegian (bokmål) language)
the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by 85% to 90% of the population...
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Generally, speakers of the three largest Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) can read each other's languages without great difficulty...
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of the population of Norway, including Jan Mayen, and Svalbard, where the hospital is not equipped for births, and no burials are allowed because of permafrost...
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languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language...
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dialects, standard language), spelling reform, and orthography. In the United Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, the official languages were Danish and German...
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creation of schools for the deaf by Norwegian Lutheran missionaries, the languages are quite distinct. Out of a sample of 96 sign pairs, 18 pairs were identical...
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The main cities of Denmark–Norway were Copenhagen, Christiania (Oslo), Altona, Bergen and Trondheim, and the primary official languages were Danish and...
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official minority languages. Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark...
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two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. There are also several official minority languages: three variants of Sami, as well as...
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or kveenin kieli; Norwegian: kvensk) is a Finnic language or a group of Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway by the Kven people...
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Southern Sámi (redirect from Southern S´ámi language)
recognized minority languages, but the term "Saami" comprises different varieties/languages, and they are not individually recognized. In Norway, Southern Sámi...
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Although the written languages are compatible, spoken Danish is distinctly different from Norwegian and Swedish and thus the degree of mutual intelligibility...
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significant enough to treat them as two separate languages within the Central Zone (Hindustani) group of languages. The Dom and the Rom therefore likely descend...
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Municipalities in Norway are the basic unit of local government. Norway is divided into 15 administrative regions, called counties. These counties are...
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This is a list of towns and cities in Norway. The Norwegian language word by means a town or city–there is no distinction between the two words as there...
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and speak the Norwegian language. Norwegians are descended from the Norse of the Early Middle Ages who formed a unified Kingdom of Norway in the 9th century...
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are 15 counties in Norway. The 15 counties are administrative regions that are the first-level administrative divisions of Norway. The counties are further...
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Lule Sámi (redirect from Lule Saami language)
in Norway. In Norway it is especially seen in Hamarøy Municipality (formerly Tysfjord Municipality), where Lule Sámi is one of the official languages. It...
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Kven people (redirect from Norwegian Finns)
parts of Russia. In 1996, Kvens were granted minority status in Norway, and in 2005 the Kven language was recognized as a minority language in Norway. There...
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in Norway Cuisine of Norway Languages of Norway Media in Norway Museums in Norway National symbols of Norway Coat of arms of Norway Flag of Norway List...
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to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway Demographics of Norway Norwegian language, including...
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do not have any styles in Norwegian, although the style of Highnesses may be used informally in foreign languages. In Norway there is traditionally no...
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Sámi peoples (redirect from Assimilation of the Sámi)
languages are the Sámi languages, which are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. Traditionally, the Sámi have pursued a variety of livelihoods...
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