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  2. Languages of Norway - Wikipedia

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    Sami languages, like Kven and Finnish, belong to the Uralic language family. By far the most spoken form of Sami in Norway is North Sami (spoken by around 15,000 Sami in Norway). The others are Lule Sami (spoken by around 500 in Norway) and South Sami (which has around 300 speakers in Norway). Sami and Norwegian are the official languages of ...

  3. Norwegian language - Wikipedia

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    Norwegian (endonym: norsk ⓘ) 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, in particular, are very close.

  4. Stavangersk - Wikipedia

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    The long close central /ʉː/ and close back /uː/ vowels can be realized as closing diphthongs [əʉ] and [əu]. [5]The short counterpart of /ʉː/ is close-mid []. [5]The short close back vowel is more front than in Oslo, near-back [] rather than back [].

  5. Norwegian dialects - Wikipedia

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    Studies show that even today, speakers of rural dialects may tend to change their usage in formal settings to approximate the formal written language. This has led to various countercultural movements ranging from the adoption of traditional forms of Oslo dialects among political radicals in Oslo, to movements preserving local dialects.

  6. Nynorsk - Wikipedia

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    Norway had its own written and oral language—Norwegian.After the Kalmar Union, Norway became a less important part of Denmark.At that time, Danish was declared the written language of Norway until 1814, and Danish with Norwegian intonation and pronunciation was on occasion spoken in the cities (see Dano-Norwegian).

  7. Modern Norwegian - Wikipedia

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    Modern Norwegian (Norwegian: moderne norsk) is the Norwegian language that emerged after the Middle Norwegian transition period (1350–1536) until and including today. The transition to Modern Norwegian is usually dated to 1525, or 1536, the year of the Protestant Reformation and the beginning of the kingdoms of Denmark–Norway (1537–1814).

  8. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...

  9. Bokmål - Wikipedia

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    Although Danish never became the spoken language of the vast majority of the population, by the time Norway's ties with Denmark were severed in 1814, a Dano-Norwegian vernacular often called the "educated daily speech" [citation needed] had become the mother tongue of elites in most Norwegian cities, such as Bergen, Kristiania and Trondheim.