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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.
Det Norske Akademis ordbok (literally ' Dictionary of the Norwegian Academy '), abbreviated NAOB, is one of the largest dictionaries of the Norwegian language and covers its most widely used written variety, Bokmål / Riksmål, which is used by around 90% of Norwegians. It was published as a freely available online dictionary in 2018 by the ...
Old Norse. Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw). Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg or knife.
Ordnett is a Norwegian online dictionary service, [ 1] published and maintained by Kunnskapsforlaget, a privately held publishing house. Ordnett offers access to 50 dictionaries, covering 11 languages. This makes it the largest, commercially available dictionary database in Norway.
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
The sound system of Norwegian resembles that of Swedish.There is considerable variation among the dialects, and all pronunciations are considered by official policy to be equally correct – there is no official spoken standard, although it can be said that Eastern Norwegian Bokmål speech (not Norwegian Bokmål in general) has an unofficial spoken standard, called Urban East Norwegian or ...
In the Norwegian discourse, the term Dano-Norwegian is seldom used with reference to contemporary Bokmål and its spoken varieties. The nationality of the language has been a hotly debated topic, and its users and proponents have generally not been fond of the implied association with Danish (hence the neutral names Riksmål and Bokmål ...
Bokmålsordboka ( Urban East Norwegian: [ˈbûːkmoːɫsˌuːrbuːkɑ]) is a dictionary of the Norwegian written language called Bokmål (lit. "book language"). It was published by the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo in cooperation with the Norwegian Language Council. On June 15th 2016 it was moved ...