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Norway–Spain relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between these two countries. Norway has an embassy in Madrid , [ 1 ] and honorary consulates in Algeciras , Barcelona , Benidorm , Bilbao , Gijón , Gerona , La Coruña , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Málaga , Palma de Mallorca , Sevilla , Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Torrevieja ...
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.
Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), officially the Kingdom of Norway, [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula, with a ...
Norwegian has preserved the spellings gj , kj , and skj in the beginning of words when followed by e , æ , ø , while modern Danish has simply g , k and sk . Today, this in part reflects the fact that these words are also pronounced differently in the two languages, see below.
The Multilingual Library has exclusive rights in Norway to translate and publish books from the British publisher Mantra Lingua. The books are bilingual children’s books with text in Norwegian and parallel text in Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, Somali, and Urdu. Five books have been published so far: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; Beowulf
In Norway, the indigenous languages, Norwegian and Sámi, [b] have official status. Out of them, Norwegian is the most widely spoken language in Norway. English, a foreign language, is the second most widely spoken language in Norway. As of 2013, there are 4.5 million English-speakers (approximately 88% of the Norwegian population).
The Finnish-Norwegian border on the peninsula was established after extensive negotiation in 1809, and the common Norwegian-Russian districts were not partitioned until 1826. Even then the borders were still fluid, with Finland gaining access to the Barents Sea in 1920, but ceding this territory to the Soviet Union in 1944.
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).