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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 ...
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.
("(The ordinary) book language"), e.g. in Den norske Literatur fra 1814 indtil vore Dage (Hans Olaf Hansen, 1862), or the synonym Bogsprog, e.g. in the 1885 decision that adopted Landsmål as a co-official language. The term Riksmål (Rigsmaal), meaning National Language, was first proposed by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1899 as a name for the ...
When concerning language, the word duche could be used as a hypernym for several languages (The North est Contrey which lond spekyn all maner Duche tonge – The North [of Europe] is an area, in which all lands speak all manner of "Dutch" languages) but it could also suggest singular use (In Duche a rudder is a knyght – In "Dutch" a rudder ...
In Norway, each municipality and county can choose to declare either of the two language standards as the official language or remain "standard-neutral". As of 2020, 90 municipalities had declared Nynorsk the official standard, while 118 had chosen Bokmål; another 148 were "neutral" between the two, [ 19 ] numbers that have been stable since ...
Norway's 'trillion-dollar-man' believes America's attitude towards failure is helping propel the nation ahead of its European counterparts—where workers may have a better work-life balance but ...
abblasen - to call off; abblenden - to shade/screen; abblitzen - to be sent packing; abblocken - to block; abblättern - to flake off; abbrausen - to take a shower; abbrechen - abort; abbrechen - to break off; abbremsen - to brake/slow down; abbrennen - to burn down; abbringen - to stop doing; Abbruch - demolition/cancellation; Abbrucharbeiten ...
The /r/ disappears altogether – Southern tip of Norway, coastal areas north of Bergen, and inland almost to Trondheim. The /r/ is retained in certain words but not in others – coastal areas around Trondheim, and most of Northern Norway; The /r/ is retained in certain words and in weak feminine nouns, but not in others – one coast area in ...