Norwegian Language Information

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Norwegian language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken by about 4 million people in Norway and another million in the other Scandinavian countries and North America. Norwegian is a daughter language of Old Norse (see Germanic languages; Norse language). Today there are two official forms of Norwegian: bokmål [book language] and nynorsk [new Norwegian].

Norwegian language, alphabet and pronounciation

Norwegian language learning material

Norsk klassen: Typing the characters

Norges skole

International Summer School (ISS)

Study in Norway

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