![]() ![]() Nynorsk is mostly used in Western Norway as a written language (by roughly 10 % of the people, amounting to about half a million), Bokmål is dominant in the rest of the country, and is used in writing by close to 90 %. In speech, there is much blending between dialects, Bokmål and Nynorsk, but in writing, the varieties are kept more clearly apart. In addition, both Swedish and Danish are closely related to Norwegian and thus intelligible to Norwegians, although with some initial difficulty in many cases. They are also mutually intelligible, although they can be very diverse, not least in intonation. Orally, local dialects are extensively used throughout the country. They are so close to each other linguistically that they may be regarded as «written dialects», mutually completely intelligible. The majority language, Norwegian, has two distinct written varieties: Bokmål (‘Book Language’) and Nynorsk (‘New Norwegian’). These languages will not concern us here. In addition, there are many «immigrated languages» which have entered the country since the 1960s, and there is the sign language of the deaf (about 3000 users). The groups using these languages are acknowledged by law as national minorities (the Sámi have a special status as «aboriginal people» ( urfolk)). In the first place the national minorities: Sámi (spoken in three varieties which function as separate languages: North Sámi, Lule Sámi and South Sámi) and Kven (a variety of Finnish which is now acknowledged as a separate language), all of these mainly spoken in Northern Norway, and the so-called Romlanguages, which are used by a few hundreds. Norwegian is spoken by a majority close to 100 % in the kingdom of Norway (which at present contains around 5 million inhabitants), although a few tens of thousands have other languages as their first language. Visste du at? Om standarder for terminologiarbeid Portrettintervju med Jostein Riiser Kristiansen Samarbeidspartnarar og internasjonalt samarbeidĪlternativ og supplerende kommunikasjon (ASK) Språksituasjonen i forsking og høgare utdanning Veiviser for språkvalg i universitets- og høgskolesektoren Rutiner for fastsetjing av namn på statsorgan Intensiv overvåking, intensivavdeling, intensivbehandling Ord som kan takast inn i nynorske ordlister ![]()
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