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Norwegian is a Scandinavian language and a branch of the Germanic languages that\u00a0has slightly more than 4 million native speakers.\u00a0Two standard varieties of Norwegian exist, Bokm\u00e5l and Nynorsk (literally “new Norwegian”).<\/p>\n
Nynorsk is used primarily in the western regions and is spoken by around 0.5 million people. Bokm\u00e5l is used by the rest of Norway and remains the preferred variant when writing Norwegian, although the spoken Norwegian\u00a0resemble Nynorsk more than\u00a0Bokm\u00e5l.<\/p>\n
Today Nynorsk and Bokm\u00e5l both have equal legal status in Norway, though the private and commercial sectors of Norway’s economy are dominated completely by Bokm\u00e5l, while all public bodies uphold both variants.\u00a0Interestingly, both\u00a0Bokm\u00e5l and Nynorsk are just\u00a0writing\u00a0<\/em>standards, yet don’t provide guidelines on the spoken form of the language. In result, a\u00a0mixture of dialects is used in everyday (even official) communication and no spoken form considered as “incorrect”.<\/p>\n The main difference in the two forms is based in their historical origin. While\u00a0Bokm\u00e5l is a Norwegianized version of Danish used by the elite and upper class, as Danish used to be the standard for writing Norwegian from 16th to 19th century, Nynorsk resulted from opposition to the Danish language and tried to established the language on “pure” Norwegian rural dialects. These two writing standards and their use turned into a fundamental political controversy in Norway mainly throughout the 20th century.<\/p>\n The decades-long efforts to merge Norwegian writing standards into one common language (called Samnorsk) failed after series of language reforms, and the policy was eventually abandoned in 2002 due to strong public resistance, keeping this interesting linguistic schizophrenia very much alive.<\/p>\n The Norwegian alphabet consists of 29 letters. In addition to the standard English alphabet, Norwegian ends with \u2026 X Y Z \u00c6 \u00d8 \u00c5. Certain letters can be modified by diacritics\u00a0(\u00e9, \u00e8, \u00ea, \u00f3, \u00f2, \u00f4 and occasionally also \u00ec and \u00f9 and \u1ef3 in Nynorsk).<\/p>\n A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \u00c6 \u00d8 \u00c5<\/p>\n a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z \u00e6 \u00f8 \u00e5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norwegian is a Scandinavian language and a branch of the Germanic languages that\u00a0has slightly more than 4 million native speakers.\u00a0Two standard varieties of Norwegian exist, Bokm\u00e5l and Nynorsk (literally “new Norwegian”). Nynorsk is used primarily in the western regions and is spoken by around 0.5 million people. Bokm\u00e5l is used by the rest of Norway …<\/p>\nAlphabet<\/h3>\n