Norwegian language
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Norway |
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Norway |
Norwegian language (norsk) — is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway. There is no officially sanctioned standard of spoken Norwegian, but the sociolect of the urban upper and middle class in East Norway, upon which Bokmål is primarily based, is the form generally taught to foreign students.
There are two official forms of written Norwegian — Bokmål (literally «book language») and Nynorsk (literally «new Norwegian»). The Norwegian Language Council recommends the terms «Norwegian Bokmål» and «Norwegian Nynorsk» in English.
The languages now spoken in Scandinavia developed from the Old Norse language, which did not differ greatly between what are now Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish areas. Viking explorers had begun to settle Iceland in the 9th century, carrying with them the Old Norse language.
From the 1840s, some writers experimented with a Norwegianized Danish by incorporating words that were descriptive of Norwegian scenery and folk life, and adopting a more Norwegian syntax.
Norwegian is a pitch accent language with two distinct pitch patterns. They are used to differentiate two-syllable words with otherwise identical pronunciation.
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