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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.
Norwegian orthography is the method of writing the Norwegian language, of which there are two written standards: Bokmål and Nynorsk.While Bokmål has for the most part derived its forms from the written Danish language and Danish-Norwegian speech, Nynorsk gets its word forms from Aasen's reconstructed "base dialect", which is intended to represent the distinctive dialectal forms.
Knut Olav Åmås has described the dictionary as the Norwegian counterpart of Svenska Akademiens ordbok and the Oxford English Dictionary. [ 1 ] The dictionary is based on Norsk Riksmålsordbok , which was published in six volumes between 1937 and 1995, and the development of Det Norske Akademis ordbok on the basis of this work started in the ...
[1] [2] An illustrated edition was published by Kunnskapsforlaget in 1993 under the title Norsk Illustrert Ordbok (Norwegian Illustrated Dictionary), and was first edited by Tor Guttu. [3] Riksmål is an unofficial Norwegian language form developed in Norway during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is based on the Danish-Norwegian language ...
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.
The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (Norwegian: Store Norske Leksikon, abbreviated SNL) is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. [1] It is also known as the Norsk biografisk leksikon . The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month.
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 ...
Norsk Riksmålsordbok (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈnɔʂk ˈrɪ̀ksmoːɫsˌuːrbuːk]) is a Norwegian dictionary for the unofficial written language form Riksmål. The work was initiated by Riksmaalsvernet around 1920. Its first edition was completed in 1957, and was printed in four volumes. Two extra volumes were issued in 1995.