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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.
Nynorsk, Norway's other written language, was considered rural and thus lacking prestige, and has not had a strong influence on the dialect. Subsequently, large parts of the German-inspired vocabulary unique for Bergen disappeared. Plural endings are used less frequently, for example huser (houses) has become hus, which is correct Bokmål.
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 ...
Traditionally, Danish and German were the two official languages of Denmark–Norway; laws and other official instruments for use in Denmark and Norway were written in Danish, and local administrators spoke Danish or Norwegian. German was the administrative language of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig.
Although Danish never became the spoken language of the vast majority of the population, by the time Norway's ties with Denmark were severed in 1814, a Dano-Norwegian vernacular often called the "educated daily speech" [citation needed] had become the mother tongue of elites in most Norwegian cities, such as Bergen, Kristiania and Trondheim.
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).
Nyland speaks Norwegian fluently with a native accent, having spent most of his youth in Norway, and Bodø from where he got his regional dialect. He rarely speaks Norwegian in his videos. He also speaks fluent Thai especially Northern Thai language and publish some Thai-language videos in his YouTube subchannel Teslabjorn Thai but he can't ...