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Currently, Riksmål denotes a language form regulated by the non-governmental organisation The Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature. It is based on pre-1938 Bokmål and has been regulated by The Academy as a private alternative to the official Bokmål spelling standard since the 1950s.
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank ... Norwegian: 5,200,000 [31] Slovak: 5,200,000 [32] 27 Swiss German:
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 koiné language (mixed language) known as Dano-Norwegian (Dansk-Norsk) which developed in Norwegian cities was the result of Danish replacing Norwegian as the language of the upper classes in that country (Danish was used in the courts of law and by the ruling class, and after the Lutheran Reformation of 1536 it replaced Latin as a ...
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 ...
The following is a table of European languages. The number of speakers as a first or second language (L1 and L2 speakers) listed are speakers in Europe only; [nb 1] see list of languages by number of native speakers and list of languages by total number of speakers for global estimates on numbers of speakers. [citation needed]
Norsk bokmål; Norsk nynorsk; ... Lists of languages by country (8 P) E. Lists of endangered languages (23 P) ... List of European languages;
Wikimedia list article, Wikimedia list of persons by position held List of presidents of the United States: 134 3: USAs delstater: designation for an administrative territorial entity of a single country U.S. state: 132 4: Hundefamilien: taxon Canidae: 121 5: Tysklands delstater: designation for an administrative territorial entity of a single ...