16 Facts About Norwegian language

1.

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language.

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2.

Under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries who speak Norwegian have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable for any interpretation or translation costs.

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3.

Norwegian language examined the development of Icelandic, which had largely escaped the influences under which Norwegian had come.

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4.

Norwegian language called his work, which was published in several books from 1848 to 1873, Landsmal, meaning "national language".

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5.

Name of the Danish Norwegian language in Norway was a topic of hot dispute throughout the 19th century.

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6.

The name Nynorsk, the linguistic term for modern Norwegian language, was chosen to contrast with Danish and emphasis on the historical connection to Old Norwegian language.

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7.

The pitch accents give the Norwegian language a "singing" quality that makes it easy to distinguish from other languages.

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8.

Norwegian language'storically, Bokmal is a Norwegianised variety of Danish, while Nynorsk is a language form based on Norwegian dialects and puristic opposition to Danish.

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9.

The now-abandoned official policy to merge Bokmal and Nynorsk into one common Norwegian language called Samnorsk through a series of spelling reforms has created a wide spectrum of varieties of both Bokmal and Nynorsk.

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10.

NRK, the Norwegian broadcasting corporation, broadcasts in both Bokmal and Nynorsk, and all governmental agencies are required to support both written languages.

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11.

Norwegian language nouns are inflected for number and for definiteness .

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12.

Norwegian language nouns belong to three noun classes : masculine, feminine and neuter.

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13.

All Norwegian language dialects have traditionally retained all the three grammatical genders from Old Norse to some extent.

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14.

Enclitic -s in Norwegian language evolved as a shorthand expression for the possessive pronouns sin, si, sitt and sine.

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15.

Norwegian language verbs are conjugated according to mainly three grammatical moods: indicative, imperative and subjunctive, though the subjunctive mood has largely fallen out of use and is mainly found in a few common frozen expressions.

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16.

Negation in Norwegian language is expressed by the word "ikke", which literally means "not" and is placed after the finite verb.

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