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* Norwegian
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Norwegian is a North Germanic language.
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** Bokmål and New Norwegian
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There are two written forms, bokmål (book tongue) and nynorsk (new
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norwegian). Bokmål came from Denmark, as under their rule they forced the
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Norwegian population to write in Danish. This has led to bokmål as a written
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variant with many similarities to that language. The other variant, nynorsk, was
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invented by Ivar Aasen. He travelled around the country and collected samples of
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regional dialects, creating a written form of Norwegian which would mimic the
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spoken variants.
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I write bokmål. New Norwegian features many more diphtongs than bokmål and has a
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vastly different vocabulary.
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** Alphabet
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The letters are pronounced as monophtongs by themselves in most cases, unlike
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the diphtong pronounciation of some letters in English (like 'a').
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Norwegian and other Scandinavian languages have 3 additional vowels, æ (like the
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'a' in 'can'), ø (like the 'u' in 'purse'), and å (like the 'o' in 'floor').
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** Dialects
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Norwegian has no standard way of speech, and the regional dialects reflect
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this. The dialects originated because of the difficulty of moving between
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different parts of the country, due to factors like the mountains. This lead to
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sealed off areas where dialects were able to flourish. It is unknown how many
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there are, however they tend to resemble the ones they are close to.
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** Other
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{https://www.sprakradet.no/svardatabase/sporsmal-og-svar/hen/ Hen} is the
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official gender neutral pronoun in Norwegian.
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{https://git.sr.ht/~jole/nous The NOUS keyboard layout}
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